Trnopolje ( Serbohorv. Logor Trnopolje ) is a camp created by the Serb authorities in the village of Trnopolje near the town of Priedor in northern Bosnia and Herzegovina in the first months of the Bosnian war . According to the report of the UN Commission is a concentration camp [1] . Bosnians and Bosnian Croats were held in the camp, some of which, according to Western human rights organizations and the media, were killed, raped, ill-treated and tortured [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] .
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Prisoners of the camps of Ternopillya. From the materials of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia | |
Type of | Concentration camp |
Location | Trnopolje village, near Priedor , Bosnia and Herzegovina |
Coordinates | |
Operation period | May 1992 - November 1992 |
Number of prisoners | 5,000 - 6,000 |
Death toll | 90 |
Guiding organization | Serbian military and police |
According to local Serbian authorities, the camp was a collection point and a “transit camp” for the population of the Priedora region. The report of the United Nations Commission of Experts at the Security Council (report of the Bassiouni Commission) established that Trnopolje also served as a springboard for the mass deportations of mainly women, children and the elderly. [1]
According to UN estimates, there were from 5,000 to 6,000 prisoners in the camp, of which about 300 were children [7] . The death toll during their stay in the camp is unknown. The UN International Court of Justice claims that the deaths of at least 20 people are undeniably proven [8] . At the same time, according to Dr. Idriz Merjanic , about 200 people were killed in the camp [9] up to 500 victims .
Trnopolje became known after the shots of camp prisoners taken by the British television company ITN and a photograph of a Bosnian man Fikret Alich behind barbed wire, published on the cover of Time magazine [10] . Subsequently, the media spread the information that this photo was a falsification [11] , but a British court sentenced the distributors of this information to pay costly compensation to ITN [12] [13] .
See also
- Priedor Massacre
- Omarska concentration camp
- Keraterm (camp)
- Manyache (camp)
- The Srebrenica Massacre
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 “Final report of the United Nations Commission of Experts established pursuant to security council resolution 780 (1992)” . United Nations - Security Council (December 28, 1994).
- ↑ “Bosnia-Herzegovina: Rape and sexual abuse by armed forces” . Amnesty International (January 21, 1993). Archived on October 3, 2012.
- ↑ TRNOPOLJE DETENTION CAMP: HELSINKI WATCH REPORT . Human Rights Watch (1992-1993). Archived on October 3, 2012.
- ↑ Stephen Engelberg. “CONFLICT IN THE BALKANS; Refugees From Camps Tell of Agony and Terror ” . The New York Times (August 7, 1992). Archived on October 3, 2012.
- ↑ "Karadzic: The UN's most wanted" (English) . CNN (February 11, 2004). Archived on October 3, 2012.
- ↑ "1992: Serbian prison camps condemned" . BBC News . Archived on October 3, 2012.
- ↑ "Annex VIII - part 6/10. Prison Camps. Trnopolje " (English) .
- ↑ "The Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Bosnia and Herzegovina v. Serbia and Montenegro), case 91" . ICJ (February 26, 2007). Archived on October 3, 2012.
- ↑ "Testimony of Dr. Idriz Merdžanić ” . ICTY. Archived on October 3, 2012.
- ↑ “Iconic Photos: Trnopolje, Bosnia, 1992” . Iconic Photo (May 26, 2009). Archived on October 3, 2012.
- ↑ The picture that fooled the world (Eng.) // Living Marxism . - February 1997 .
- ↑ ITN wins Bosnian war libel case (English) // BBC . - March 15, 2000 .
- ↑ Poison in the well of history // The Guardian . - March 15, 2000 .
Links
- Bosnia and Hercegovina. BACKGROUND . Human Rights Watch
- Videography of the camp . 1992
- Interview with Fikret Alich . 2008 year