Kozarac

‘Surviving the Omarska Hell’: Ex-Detainee Remembers Six Months in Camps

Listening to reports from other towns in Bosnia, he hoped the war would stop soon. However, in the conflict that soon spread to Prijedor, Hukanovic and his son were arrested and taken from their home to the infamous Bosnian Serb-run Omarska detention camp on May 30, 1992.

He has never figured out why his young son was also arrested.

Mass Funeral Held for 12 War Victims from Bosnia’s Prijedor

Twelve war victims were buried on Tuesday at the Kamicani Memorial Centre in Kozarac, at a ceremony that was attended by the Bosniak and Croat members of the tripartite Bosnian presidency, Sefik Dzaferovic and Zeljko Komsic.

Their remains had recently been exhumed from mass graves at Koricani Cliffs, Tomasica, Hrastova Glavica, as well as from sites in Kozarac.

Bosnian War Prisoners’ Complaint about Serbian TV Show ‘Dismissed’

Former detainee Fikret Alic with a copy of Time magazine from 1992 depicting him in a Bosnian Serb wartime camp. Photo: EPA-EFE/Freek van den Bergh.

The former detainees had complained that untruths about the Serb-run camps were aired on the Happy TV show 'Good Morning, Serbia' in February this year, belittling their suffering.