VUKOVAR, Jan 30 (Hina) - The Society of Former Prisoners of Serb Concentration Camps will sue the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia on behalf of former prisoners of Serb concentration camps from 1991 and 1992 for the torture of prisoners
in numerous camps opened in parts of Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina during the Serb occupation and in Yugoslavia. According to the Society's president, Danijel Rehak, the society does not know yet which court should be conducting the proceedings which were aimed at compensating former prisoners. According to the society's data, around 8,000 Croats and other non-Serbs were imprisoned in Serb camps. Those prisoners were imprisoned for more than 15 days, while the number of those who only passed through the camps or were imprisoned for a day or two is much higher, Rehak said. The prisoners were subjected to abuse and physical or mental torture which often resulted in their
VUKOVAR, Jan 30 (Hina) - The Society of Former Prisoners of Serb
Concentration Camps will sue the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia on
behalf of former prisoners of Serb concentration camps from 1991
and 1992 for the torture of prisoners in numerous camps opened in
parts of Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina during the Serb occupation
and in Yugoslavia.
According to the Society's president, Danijel Rehak, the society
does not know yet which court should be conducting the proceedings
which were aimed at compensating former prisoners. According to the
society's data, around 8,000 Croats and other non-Serbs were
imprisoned in Serb camps.
Those prisoners were imprisoned for more than 15 days, while the
number of those who only passed through the camps or were imprisoned
for a day or two is much higher, Rehak said. The prisoners were
subjected to abuse and physical or mental torture which often
resulted in their death. According to the society, around 30 and 40%
of all prisoners were killed in detention. As Croatia has not
recognised all camps, the Croatian government's Office for Missing
and Imprisoned Persons has data on only some 300 persons killed in
Serb camps.
The society has entrusted their suit to Vukovar attorney Biserka
Treneski, whom they handed a list with the names of some 7,500
persons who went through Serb prisons.
The society has been collecting documents on the imprisonment and
torture of Croatian citizens in Serb camps for years. The society
published part of the documents in a book, which includes prisoner
testimonies and a list of all camps which existed in the Serb-
occupied areas of Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and in Yugoslavia in
1991 and 1992.
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