Back معسكر عمرسكا Arabic Koncentracijski logor Omarska BS Camp d'Omarska Catalan Tábor Omarska Czech Lager Omarska German اردوگاه اومارسکا Persian Omarskan keskitysleiri Finnish Camp de concentration d'Omarska French Sabirni logor Omarska Croatian Kamp Omarska Dutch
| Omarska | |
|---|---|
| Concentration Camp | |
  Omarska Location of Omarska in Bosnia and Herzegovina | |
| Coordinates | 44°52′10.0″N 16°52′58.3″E / 44.869444°N 16.882861°E |
| Location | Omarska, Prijedor, Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| Operated by | Bosnian Serb forces |
| Operational | 25 May – 21 August 1992 (2 months, 3 weeks and 6 days) |
| Inmates | Bosniaks and Bosnian Croats[1] |
| Number of inmates | c. 6,000 |
| Killed | 700 |
The Omarska camp was a concentration camp[2][3] run by the Army of Republika Srpska in the mining town of Omarska, near Prijedor in northern Bosnia and Herzegovina, set up for Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) and Bosnian Croat prisoners during the Prijedor ethnic cleansing. Functioning in the first months of the Bosnian War in 1992, it was one of 677 alleged detention centers and camps set up throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina during the war.[4] While nominally an "investigation center" or "assembly point" for members of the Bosniak and Croatian population,[5] Human Rights Watch classified Omarska as a concentration camp.[6][7]
The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, located in The Hague, found several individuals guilty of crimes against humanity perpetrated at Omarska. Murder, torture, rape, and abuse of prisoners was common. Around 6,000 Bosniaks and Bosnian Croats, mainly men, were held at the camp for about five months in the spring and summer of 1992. Hundreds died of starvation, punishment, beatings, ill-treatment and executions.
- ^ Ed Vuliamy (10 September 2004). "Return to Omarska". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 November 2012.
- ^ "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 from the original on 6 December 2008.
- ^ Mark Danner. "Concentration Camps - The Horrors Of A Camp Called Omarska and the Serb Strategy - The World's Most Wanted Man". www.pbs.org - FRONTLINE - PBS. excerpt from Danner's, "America and the Bosnia Genocide," The New York Review of Books, 12/4/97. Retrieved 18 November 2019.
- ^ "Prison camps". Final Report of the Commission of Experts. Established Pursuant to Security Council Resolution 780. United Nations. 27 May 1994. Archived from the original on 6 December 2008.
- ^ Simons, Marlise (3 November 2001). "5 Bosnian Serbs Guilty of War Crimes at Infamous Camp". The New York Times.
- ^ "The Unindicted: Reaping the Rewards of "Ethnic Cleansing" in Prijedor". Human Rights Watch. 1 January 1997. Archived from the original on 20 November 2012.
- ^ Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team. "A mission to assist with field and laboratory work for the International Criminal Tribunal to the former Yugoslavia in its investigation into human rights violations in Bosnia" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-07-18. Retrieved 2009-01-22.
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