OMARSKA CAMP OMARSKA, Aug 6 (Hina) - About 200 former camp inmates on Wednesday marked the 11th anniversary of the closure of the Omarska concentration camp in the northeast of Bosnia-Herzegovina. Around 6,000 Bosnian Muslims and
Croats from the Prijedor area passed through the Serb-run camp from 30 May to 6 August 1992. About 3,000 men aged between 16 and 70 and 50 women were detained in the camp at any one time during the 70 days or so of its existence, according to the head of the Camp Prisoners Association, Muharem Murselovic. Murselovic said that between 600 and 800 people had been killed in the camp. The camp was dismantled on 6 August 1992 when some of the inmates were transferred to the Manjaca army range near Banja Luka and the others to Trnopolje near Prijedor.(hina) vm sb
OMARSKA, Aug 6 (Hina) - About 200 former camp inmates on Wednesday
marked the 11th anniversary of the closure of the Omarska
concentration camp in the northeast of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Around 6,000 Bosnian Muslims and Croats from the Prijedor area
passed through the Serb-run camp from 30 May to 6 August 1992.
About 3,000 men aged between 16 and 70 and 50 women were detained in
the camp at any one time during the 70 days or so of its existence,
according to the head of the Camp Prisoners Association, Muharem
Murselovic.
Murselovic said that between 600 and 800 people had been killed in
the camp.
The camp was dismantled on 6 August 1992 when some of the inmates
were transferred to the Manjaca army range near Banja Luka and the
others to Trnopolje near Prijedor.
(hina) vm sb