Omarska concentration camp [1] was run by Bosnian Serbs in an old iron mine, near the small town of Omarska, near Priedor in northern Bosnia and Herzegovina . It was founded during the Prijedorsk massacre for Croats , both for women and for men [2] [3] . Used from the first months of the Bosnian war in 1992, it was one of the 677 similar camps in Bosnia during the war. Used until the end of August 1992. Conditionally referred to as a “pre-trial detention center” or “collection point” for representatives of non-Serb nationality [2] , while the human rights organization Human Rights Watch classified the Omarska camp as a concentration camp [4] .
Among the prisoners of the concentration camp women were Bosnian Nusreta Sivac and Croatian Jadranka Ziegel , who became activists for the rights of victims of rape and other war crimes after being released, and they are given an important role in recognizing rape during the war as a war crime under international law .
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- ↑ Final report of the United Nations Commission of Experts established pursuant to security council resolution 780 (1992) , United Nations - Security Council (28 December 1994). Archived December 6, 2008.
- ↑ 1 2 New York Times: 5 Bosnian Serbs Guilty of War Crimes at Infamous Camp . Archived on April 14, 2012.
- ↑ Guardian: Five Serbs guilty of Omarska camp atrocities . Archived on April 14, 2012.
- ↑ HRW report