*2321 1991 Population Census of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Why Bosnia? 230-231 (Rabia Ali and Lawrence Lifschultz eds., 1993).
*2322 An official UN source, IHRLI Doc. No. 29753.
*2323 United Kingdom Defence Debriefing Team, «Debrief of CFN 059», IHRLI Doc. No. 40063-40120.
*2324 See Human Rights Questions: Human Rights Situations and Reports of the Special Rapporteurs and Representatives; Situation of Human Rights in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia, U.N. Doc. A-47-666. S-24809 (17 November 1992), IHRLI Doc. No. 1488, 1495-1497. According to the report:
«During his mission the Special Rapporteur received a substantial body of evidence describing ethnic cleansing in Bosnia and Herzegovina from victims, witnesses and competent international monitors. The following are excerpts from a report prepared on the basis of testimony, received during the second mission from a number of reliable sources, which illustrates the methodical character of ethnic cleansing carried out by Serbian forces in the Prijedor area.»
*2325 Helsinki Watch, War Crimes in Bosnia-Hercegovina Volume II (April 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 9377.
*2326 Canadian Mission, Second Submission pursuant to Security Council resolution 771 (1992), U.N. Doc. S-26016, 30 June 1993, IHRLI Doc. No. 29783-29785; Submission of Information by Austria Pursuant to Paragraph 5 of Security Council Resolution 771 (1992) and Paragraph 1 of Security Council Resolution 780 (1992) (11 February 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 12321; Video Archive and Database, Scene Breakdown, Sudwest-3, «War Victims: A Time to Mourn, Part 2», Tape No. 151, at 2, transcrip; Helsinki Watch, War Crimes in Bosnia Hercegovina (August 1992), IHRLI Doc. No. 352; Helsinki Watch, War Crimes in Bosnia-Hercegovina, Volume II (April 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 9377; Amnesty International, Bosnia- Hercegovina, Gross Abuses of Basic Human Rights (October 1992), IHRLI Doc. No. 50201; US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-109, IHRLI Doc. No. 56667-56668; US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-71, IHRLI Doc. No. 56549-56551; US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-165, IHRLI Doc. No. 56844-56849; US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-183, IHRLI Doc. No. 56903-56904; US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-246, IHRLI Doc. No. 57137-57139.
*2327 Video Archive and Database, ABC News Nightline, «Bosnia: The Hidden Horrors», Part Two, 11 November 1992, IHRLI Doc. No. 32147-32154.
*2328 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 109, IHRLI Doc. No. 56667-56668; Video Archive and Database, ABC News Nightline, «Bosnia: The Hidden Horrors», Part Two, 11 November 1992, IHRLI Doc. No. 32147-32154. According to this report, the camp was two miles from the nearest highway.
*2329 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 246, IHRLI Doc. No. 57137-57139; US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-251, IHRLI Doc. No. 57148-57150.
*2330 Croatian Information Centre, «Weekly Bulletin No. 6», 13 September 1993, No. 002 BiH-Prijedor, IHRLI Doc. No. 35755. All Croatian Information Centre reports list the Omarska camp as approximately 17 kilometres east of Prijedor.
*2331 Canadian Mission, Second Submission pursuant to Security Council resolution 771 (1992), U.N. Doc. S-26016 (30 June 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 29783-29785.
*2332 Submission of Information by Austria Pursuant to Paragraph 5 of Security Council Resolution 771 (1992) and Paragraph 1 of Security Council Resolution 780 (1992) (11 February 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 12321.
*2333 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 109, IHRLI Doc. No. 56667-56668; US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-232, IHRLI Doc. No. 57086-57089; US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-165, IHRLI Doc. No. 56844-56849; US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-183, IHRLI Doc. No. 56903-56904; US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-246, IHRLI Doc. No. 57137-57139.
*2334 Helsinki Watch, War Crimes in Bosnia-Hercegovina Volume II (April 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 9377.
*2335 Canadian Mission, Second Submission pursuant to Security Council resolution 771 (1992), U.N. Doc. S-26016, 30 June 1993, IHRLI Doc. No. 29783-29785; Submission of Information by Austria Pursuant to Paragraph 5 of Security Council Resolution 771 (1992) and Paragraph 1 of Security Council Resolution 780 (1992) (11 February 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 12321; Video Archive and Database, Scene Breakdown, Sudwest-3, «War Victims: A Time to Mourn, Part 2», Tape No. 151, at 2, transcript; Helsinki Watch, War Crimes in Bosnia Hercegovina (August 1992), IHRLI Doc. No. 352; Helsinki Watch, War Crimes in Bosnia-Hercegovina, Volume II (April 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 9377; Amnesty International, Bosnia- Hercegovina, Gross Abuses of Basic Human Rights (October 1992), IHRLI Doc. No. 50201; US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-109, IHRLI Doc. No. 56667-56668; US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-71, IHRLI Doc. No. 56549-56551; US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-165, IHRLI Doc. No. 56844-56849; US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-183, IHRLI Doc. No. 56903-56904; US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-246, IHRLI Doc. No. 57137-57139.
*2336 Video Archive and Database, ABC News Nightline, «Bosnia: The Hidden Horrors», Part Two, 11 November 1992, IHRLI Doc. No. 32147-32154.
*2337 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 109, IHRLI Doc. No. 56667-56668; Video Archive and Database, ABC News Nightline, «Bosnia: The Hidden Horrors», Part Two, 11 November 1992, IHRLI Doc. No. 32147-32154. According to this report, the camp was two miles from the nearest highway.
*2338 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 246, IHRLI Doc. No. 57137-57139; US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-251, IHRLI Doc. No. 57148-57150.
*2339 Croatian Information Centre, «Weekly Bulletin No. 6», 13 September 1993, No. 002 BiH-Prijedor, IHRLI Doc. No. 35755. All Croatian Information Centre reports list the Omarska camp as approximately 17 kilometres east of Prijedor.
*2340 Canadian Mission, Second Submission pursuant to Security Council resolution 771 (1992), U.N. Doc. S-26016 (30 June 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 29783-29785.
*2341 Submission of Information by Austria Pursuant to Paragraph 5 of Security Council Resolution 771 (1992) and Paragraph 1 of Security Council Resolution 780 (1992) (11 February 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 12321.
*2342 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 109, IHRLI Doc. No. 56667-56668; US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-232, IHRLI Doc. No. 57086-57089; US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-165, IHRLI Doc. No. 56844-56849; US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-183, IHRLI Doc. No. 56903-56904; US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-246, IHRLI Doc. No. 57137-57139.
*2343 United Kingdom Defence Debriefing Team, «Debrief of CFN 059», 9 September 1993, IHRLI Doc. No. 40064, 40066. Subject drew a plan of the Omarska camp which appears at IHRLI Doc. No. 40082.
*2344 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 109, IHRLI Doc. No. 56667-56668; US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-246, IHRLI Doc. No. 57137-57139. Subject appears to be referring to the same building.
*2345 United Kingdom Defence Debriefing Team, «Debrief of CFN 059», 9 September 1993, IHRLI Doc. No. 40064, 40067.
*2346 Roy Gutman, «Death Camp Horrors: Survivors Detail Serbian Atrocities», Newsday, 18 October 1992, IHRLI Doc. No. 35553-35568.
*2347 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 232, IHRLI Doc. No. 57086-57089.
*2348 Id.
*2349 Id.
*2350 United Kingdom Defence Debriefing Team, «Debrief of CFN 059», 9 September 1993, IHRLI Doc. No. 40064, 40067.
*2351 Roy Gutman, «Death Camp Horrors: Survivors Detail Serbian Atrocities», Newsday, 18 October 1992, IHRLI Doc. No. 35553-35568.
*2352 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 232, IHRLI Doc. No. 57086-57089.
*2353 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 109, IHRLI Doc. No. 56667-56668.
*2354 Roy Gutman, «Death Camp Horrors; Survivors Detail Serbian Atrocities», Newsday, 18 October 1992, IHRLI Doc. No. 35553-35568.
*2355 United Kingdom Defence Debriefing Team, «Debrief of CFN 059», 9 September 1993, IHRLI Doc. No. 40064, 40068.
*2356 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 109, IHRLI Doc. No. 56667-56668; US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-232, IHRLI Doc. No. 57086-57089.
*2357 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 232, IHRLI Doc. No. 57086-57089.
*2358 Id.
*2359 Roy Gutman, «Death Camp Horrors; Survivors Detail Serbian Atrocities», Newsday, 18 October 1992, IHRLI Doc. No. 35553-35568; US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 165, IHRLI Doc. No. 56944-56949.
*2360 United Kingdom Defence Debriefing Team, «Debrief of CFN 059», 9 September 1993, IHRLI Doc. No. 40064, 40067-40068. Subject was never taken to the «white house».
*2361 Roy Gutman, «Death Camp Horrors; Survivors Detail Serbian Atrocities», Newsday, 18 October 1992, IHRLI Doc. No. 35553-35568; Helsinki Watch Report, War Crimes in Bosnia- Hercegovina, Volume II, April 1993, IHRLI Doc. No. 9391.
*2362 United Kingdom Defence Debriefing Team, «Debrief of CFN 059», 9 September 1993, IHRLI Doc. No. 40064, 40070.
*2363 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 109, IHRLI Doc. No. 56667-56668.
*2364 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-3, IHRLI Doc. No. 56328-56331.
*2365 United Kingdom Defence Debriefing Team (DDT), «Summary No. 14 of Atrocity Information, CFN 405», IHRLI Doc. No. 43241.
*2366 United Kingdom Defence Debriefing Team (DDT), «Summary No. 14 of Atrocity Information, CFN 405», IHRLI Doc. No. 43241. Subject estimated that the maximum number of prisoners held at the camp ranged between 3,000 and 4,000. Video Archive and Database, Scene Breakdown, Sudwest-3«,War Victims: A Time to Mourn, Part 2», 12 October 1993, Tape No. 151, at 7; US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-165, IHRLI Doc. No. 56844-56849. Subject estimated that the Omarska camp housed about 4,000 prisoners at any one time. Human Rights Questions: Human Rights Situations and Reports of the Special Rapporteurs and Representatives; Situation of Human Rights in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia, U.N. Doc. A/47/666, S/24809 (17 November 1992), IHRLI Doc. No. 1488, 1500-1503. Report estimated the number of prisoners at 3,000. Republic of Croatia, Division of Information and Research, Ministry of Health of the Republic of Croatia, Testimony PRIJ-408, IHRLI Doc. No. 39578A-39581A. Subject estimated that the camp always had 3,000-4,000 prisoners. Medecins Sans Frontieres, «Ethnic Cleansing in the Kozarac Region (Bosnia-Herzegovina)», 7 December 1992, IHRLI Doc. No. 4852, 4860. The report estimated the number of prisoners held at Omarska at 3,000. Helsinki Watch War Crimes in Bosnia- Hercegovina, Volume II (April 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 9384. Subject stated that in late May 1992, there were about 3,000 persons at the camp, but that when they brought more prisoners from other camps such as Trnopolje, they had to keep some of the prisoners outdoors.
*2367 Video Archive and Database, Scene Breakdown, Sudwest- 3, «War Victims: A Time to Mourn, Part 2», 12 October 1993, Tape No. 151, at 7; US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 204, IHRLI Doc. No. 56982-56993 (including testimony of female ex- prisoner from Kozarac, a former agricultural technician who was held at the camp). Helsinki Watch, War Crimes in Bosnia- Hercegovina, Volume II (April 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 9377; Republic of Croatia, Division of Information and Research, Ministry of Health of the Republic of Croatia, Testimony PRIJ- 408, IHRLI Doc. No. 39578A-39581A; United Kingdom Defence Debriefing Team, «Debrief of CFN 059», 9 September 1993, IHRLI Doc. No. 40064, 40073. Subject reported that there 38 women held at the Omarska camp.
*2368 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 228, IHRLI Doc. No. 57072-57074.
*2369 United Kingdom Defence Debriefing Team (DDT), «Summary No. 19 of Atrocity Information, CFN 405», IHRLI Doc. No. 43259; US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-261, IHRLI Doc. No. 57202-57206. Subject estimated that 4,500 prisoners were held at the camp.
*2370 World Campaign «Save Humanity», «Report On War Destructions, Violation of Human Rights and Crimes Against Humanity in Bosnia and Hercegovina», Statement by N6, IHRLI Doc. No. 693. Subject estimated between 5,000-6,000 prisoners were held at Omarska in early June 1992; US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-108, IHRLI Doc. No. 56663-56666. Subject estimated that 6,000 prisoners were held at the camp upon his arrival on 29 May 1992.
*2371 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-14, IHRLI Doc. No. 56364-56366.
*2372 Information Submitted by the Government of France, 5 November 1992, U.N. Doc. S/24768, IHRLI Doc. No. 1331. Based on testimony of a Muslim doctor, age 28, from Kozarac; Roy Gutman, «Serbs' Death Camps, How the Guards Chose the Victims», A Witness to Genocide 60 (1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 24914-24918. This report cites estimates by two former prisoners.
*2373 Confidential Note from Anne-Marie Thalman, Humanitarian Affairs Officer Civil Affairs, Zagreb, 19 November 1992, containing a report by a Mr. Zdravko Grebo, based on information reportedly taken from refugees from the Kozarac area, IHRLI Doc. No. 5505, IHRLI Doc. No. 49196 (duplicate); Roy Gutman, «Serbs' Death Camps, How the Guards Chose the Victims», A Witness to Genocide 60 (1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 24914-24918. This report cites estimates made by the BiH Government.
*2374 Canadian Mission, Second Submission pursuant to Security Council Resolution 771 (1992), U.N. Doc. S/26016 (30 June 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 29783-29785.
*2375 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-14, IHRLI Doc. No. 56364-56366.
*2376 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 227, IHRLI Doc. No. 57068-57069.
*2377 Austrian Mission, Submission of Information by Austria Pursuant to Paragraph 5 of Security Council Resolution 771 (1992) and Paragraph 1 of Security Council Resolution 780 (1992) (11 February 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 12321; World Campaign «Save Humanity», «Report On War Destructions, Violation of Human Rights and Crimes Against Humanity in Bosnia and Hercegovina», Statement by N6, IHRLI Doc. No. 693.
*2378 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 261, IHRLI Doc. No. 57202-57206. Subject estimated that there were approximately 30 male prisoners under the age of 18 at Omarska. US Committee for Refugees, «Voices from the Whirlwind: Bosnian Refugee Testimonies», April-May 1993, IHRLI Doc. No. 21595-21627, at 21609-21617. Subject reported that the camp was only supposed to hold men of military age, but that there were young boys there too. He said that the determining factor was whether the boys were well-developed or not. Subject cites an example of two boys from Kozarac who were approximately 13 years- old. He stated that the boys were subject to abuse by guards.
*2379 Video Archive and Database, Scene Breakdown, Sudwest- 3, «War Victims: A Time to Mourn, Part 2», 12 October 1993, Tape No. 151, at 7.
*2380 United Kingdom Defence Debriefing Team (DDT), «Summary No. 14 of Atrocity Information, CFN 405», IHRLI Doc. No. 43241; US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-246, IHRLI Doc. No. 57137-57139. It was estimated that approximately 90 per cent of the camp's population were Bosnian Muslims and 10 per cent were Croatian. Helsinki Watch, War Crimes in Bosnia- Hercegovina, Volume II (April 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 9378, 9377. It was reported that many of the camp's female prisoners were Muslim, at least two were Croat and one was presumed to be Albanian.
*2381 Roy Gutman, «Death Camps», A Witness to Genocide 44 (1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 24896.
*2382 Video Archive and Database, Scene Breakdown, Sudwest- 3, «War Victims: A Time to Mourn, Part 2», 12 October 1993, Tape No. 151, at 16.
*2383 Roy Gutman, «There is No Food, There is No Air», A Witness to Genocide 34 (1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 24884-24886.
*2384 Helsinki Watch, War Crimes in Bosnia Hercegovina (August 1992), IHRLI Doc. No. 352; Helsinki Watch, War Crimes in Bosnia-Hercegovina, Volume II (April 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 9374.
*2385 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-14, IHRLI Doc. No. 56364-56366.
*2386 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 165, IHRLI Doc. No. 56844-56849.
*2387 United Kingdom Defence Debriefing Team (DDT), «Summary No. 14 of Atrocity Information, CFN 405», IHRLI Doc. No. 43247.
*2388 Video Archive and Database, Scene Breakdown, Sudwest- 3, «War Victims: A Time to Mourn, Part 2», 12 October 1993, Tape No. 151, at 7. Testimony by an identified female Muslim who was held at the camp. Helsinki Watch, War Crimes in Bosnia- Hercegovina, Volume II (April 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 9377.
*2389 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 246, IHRLI Doc. No. 57137-57139.
*2390 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 204, IHRLI Doc. No. 56982-56993 (testimony of female ex-prisoner from Kozarac).
*2391 Id.; US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-228, IHRLI Doc. No. 57072-57074 (testimony of female ex- prisoner from Prijedor). Subject stated that room 102 was located in a building which had a restaurant on the ground floor and that the front wall of the restaurant was glass from floor to ceiling; and that the building also contained offices.
*2392 Video Archive and Database, Scene Breakdown, Channel 4 TV, London, «True Stories: The Unforgiving», IHRLI Doc. No. 64057-64087, at 64070. According to a woman who was held at the camp, when they returned to their rooms they first had to
«wash the blood away, because the whole office was smeared with blood. The floor and cupboards, the furniture. They'd leave behind those instruments of theirs, the ones they tortured people with during interrogations. Stainless steel rungs, pipes, electric cables, wooden sticks. That's where we slept.»
*2393 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 204, IHRLI Doc. No. 56982-56993 (testimony of female ex-prisoner from Kozarac).
*2394 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 228, IHRLI Doc. No. 57072-57074; US Department of State Materials, 94-246, IHRLI Doc. No. 57137-57139. Subject described the camp's female prisoners as all «formerly politically active». United Kingdom Defence Debriefing Team, «Debrief of CFN 059», 9 September 1993, IHRLI Doc. No. 40064, 40073.
*2395 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 204, IHRLI Doc. No. 56982-56993 (testimony of female ex-prisoner from Kozarac).
*2396 Id.
*2397 Id.
*2398 Id.
*2399 An Official UN Source, IHRLI Doc. No. 3301; Video Archive and Database Scene Breakdown, ITN Report, IHRLI Doc. No. 52997-53012, at 53006; Video Archive and Database Scene Breakdown, CNN Clips, IHRLI Doc. No. 53071-53092, at 53088 (same report as ITN above); Helsinki Watch, War Crimes in Bosnia- Hercegovina, Volume II (April 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 9377.
*2400 Video Archive and Database Scene Breakdown, ITN Report, IHRLI Doc. No. 52997-53012, at 53006; Video Archive and Database Scene Breakdown, CNN Clips, IHRLI Doc. No. 53071-53092, at 53088 (same report as ITN above).
*2401 Helsinki Watch, War Crimes in Bosnia-Hercegovina, Volume II (April 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 9377; US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-227, IHRLI Doc. No. 57068-57069.
*2402 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 246, IHRLI Doc. No. 57137-57139; Video Archive and Database, Scene Breakdown, Sudwest-3, «War Victims: A Time to Mourn, Part 2», 12 October 1993, Tape No. 151, at 36-38.
*2403 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 227, IHRLI Doc. No. 57068-57069; Republic of Croatia, Division of Information and Research, Ministry of Health of the Republic of Croatia, Testimony PRIJ-408, IHRLI Doc. No. 39578A-39581A. Subject stated that he could hear female voices some time around 2:00 a.m. pleading «Please, let me go, you are already the seventh. . . .» Helsinki Watch Report, War Crimes in Bosnia- Hercegovina, Volume II (April 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 9394. Subject stated that he could hear screams, shouts and crying from the women held in the investigation rooms.
*2404 Canadian Mission, Second Submission pursuant to Security Council resolution 771 (1992), U.N. Doc. S/26016 (30 June 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 29783-29785.
*2405 Video Archive and Database, Scene Breakdown, Sudwest- 3, «War Victims: A Time to Mourn, Part 2», 12 October 1993, Tape No. 151, at 13-15. Testimony by a female Muslim engineer, and Croat solicitor who were held at the camp.
*2406 Video Archive and Database, Scene Breakdown, Channel 4 TV, London, «True Stories: The Unforgiving», IHRLI Doc. No. 64057-87, at 64070.
*2407 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 228, IHRLI Doc. No. 57072-57074.
*2408 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 204, IHRLI Doc. No. 56982-56993 (testimony of female ex-prisoner from Kozarac, a former agricultural technician who was held at the camp from 26 May 1992 to 23 August).
*2409 Video Archive and Database, Scene Breakdown, Sudwest- 3«,War Victims: A Time to Mourn, Part 2», 12 October 1993, Tape No. 151, at 8. Testimony by an identified female Croatian solicitor who was held at the camp.
*2410 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 246, IHRLI Doc. No. 57137-57139.
*2411 An Official UN Source, IHRLI Doc. No. 3300; Helsinki Watch, War Crimes in Bosnia-Hercegovina, Volume II (April 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 9377; Amnesty International, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Gross Abuses of Basic Human Rights (October 1992), IHRLI Doc. No. 50201; Roy Gutman, «Death Camp Horrors: Survivors Detail Serbian Atrocities», Newsday, 18 October 1992, IHRLI Doc. No. 35553- 35568, at 35557. Report estimates that the camp opened on 25 May 1992. US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-251, IHRLI Doc. No. 57148-57150. Subject reported that the Omarska camp was opened on 26 May 1992, and that there were only several dozen prisoners in one hall when he and his son were transferred there on 27 May 1992.
*2412 Information Submitted by the Government of France, 5 November 1992, U.N. Doc. S/24768, IHRLI Doc. No. 1331. Based on testimony of a Muslim doctor aged 28, from Kozarac. Statement submitted by the Bosnia-Hercegovina Information Centre, London, IHRLI Doc. No. 2984A65-2984A68. Subject stated that on 24 May 1992, there was an infantry attack on Kozarac, and he hid in the forest with his family. On 27 May, the entire village reportedly surrendered and the subject and others were transported to the Omarska camp. Subject reported that at least six prisoners were shot dead; Roy Gutman, «Death Camp Horrors: Survivors Detail Serbian Atrocities», Newsday, 18 October 1992, IHRLI Doc. No. 35553-35568, at 35560. Subject reported that he was brought to Omarska with hundreds of others on 26 May, after Serb forces destroyed Kozarac.
*2413 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 232, IHRLI Doc. No. 57086-57089.
*2414 Statement submitted by Bosnia-Herzegovina Information Centre, London, IHRLI Doc. No. 2984A11-2984A19. Subject stated that on 26 May 1992, two buses full of men were taken from Kozarac to the Keraterm camp where they remained for about hour with the heat on at the maximum capacity. The subject stated that the prisoners were then taken to «Bresicain», where they were held for two days, abused and denied food. They thereafter were transported to the Omarska camp. Helsinki Watch, War Crimes in Bosnia-Hercegovina, Volume II (April 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 9385- 9386. Another subject reported that on 26 May 1992, he was taken to the Keraterm camp from Kozarac, along with approximately 200- 250 other persons. The subject was reportedly beaten and registered at Keraterm, and at approximately 11:00 p.m., he and about 30 other men were reportedly driven to the Omarska camp on buses belonging to the Autotransport-Prijedor company. Canadian Mission, Second Submission pursuant to Security Council resolution 771 (1992), U.N. Doc. S/26016 (30 June 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 29783-29785. Subject stated that the Serbian army attacked Kozarac on 24 May 1992, and that Muslims and Croats from the town were rounded up and taken along with others to Omarska. US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-233, IHRLI Doc. No. 57090-57092. Subject stated the men from Kozarac were taken to Brezicani, some driving their own cars, where they were kept in a schoolhouse apart from the women. He added that they had to pay for water and were subjected to severe beatings. The subject reported that on 28 May 1992, the 450 men were taken by bus to Omarska. US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-104, IHRLI Doc. No. 56653-56654. One report stated that on 27 May, Bosnian Serbs brought 19 buses to Kozarac and began loading local residents into them. Eighteen of the buses reportedly went to Omarska where they arrived at 4:00 a.m. on 28 May. World Campaign «Save Humanity», «Report On War Destructions, Violation of Human Rights and Crimes Against Humanity in Bosnia and Hercegovina», Statement by N6, IHRLI Doc. No. 693. It was reported that on the 27th, 20 buses filled with civilians from Kozarac and Prijedor were taken to the Omarska camp. US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-165, IHRLI Doc. No. 56844-56849. Subject was originally from the village of Kevljani and reported that at 11:00 p.m. on 27 May 1992, he was part of a convoy of about 500 prisoners who were taken by bus from the Brezicani Transit camp (about three kilometres north-west of Prijedor), to the Omarska camp. The convoy reportedly arrived at Omarska at about 3:00 a.m. on 28 May. The subject stated that this bus convoy was not the only one to reach Omarska during the early hours of 28 May. About 2,000 men reportedly arrived at the camp that night, some from the Keraterm camp in Prijedor, and some from Kozarac (11 kilometres east of Prijedor). According to the report, due to the large number of prisoners, about half of them were forced to remain outside on a concrete pad between the buildings. Statement submitted by the Bosnia-Herzegovina Information Centre, London, IHRLI Doc. No. 2984A59. One subject stated that on 28 May 1992, he and 160 other persons were taken to the Omarska camp from the woods near Kozarac. Statement submitted by Bosnia-Herzegovina Information Centre, London, IHRLI Doc. No. 2984A60-2984A64. One subject reported that he was arrested near his home of Kozarac on approximately 30 May 1992, where he was in a military unit which had run out of ammunition and was forced to surrender. He said that he was taken to an army barracks where he and approximately 10 others were interrogated by military police who wanted to know where the rest of their arms were. The subject reported that he was interrogated, beaten and tortured at the barracks and that at least one other prisoner had been killed. He stated that he was told to cross himself in the Christian fashion and when he refused, a Serb soldier took out his bayonet and carved a cross into his chest. The subject stated that from the army barracks he was taken to the Omarska camp. Republic of BiH, Group For Collecting Facts About War Crimes, Case File 734/1992, 31 July 1992, IHRLI Doc. No. 31932- 31937. One male subject stated that after the attack on Kozarac on 27 May 1992, he was arrested and held for two days in the prison of Ciglane near Prijedor and from there was transferred to the camp «Kemoterm», and after three days to the Omarska camp. Statement submitted by the BiH Information Centre, London, IHRLI Doc. No. 2984A45-2984A46. One subject stated that he was caught in the woods surrounding the mountains near Kozarac on 3 June 1992, and was taken to Kozarac were he and others were interviewed and beaten. He stated that he and others were then taken to the Omarska camp. The subject reported that he was held at Omarska for 9 days (until his bladder exploded), and that he was then taken to a hospital in Prijedor. He reportedly stayed at the Prijedor hospital for 11 days without treatment and was then taken to the Keraterm camp. After being held and interviewed at Keraterm, subject was thereafter transferred back to the Omarska camp.
*2415 It was reported that the women and children from the village were bused to Trnopolje, Zenica, and finally Croatia.
*2416 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-71, IHRLI Doc. No. 56549-56951. US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-122, IHRLI Doc. No. 56699-56702. It was reported that while at Keraterm, the prisoners were packed so tightly together that they could not lay down. Many were also beaten or killed, and the prisoners were reportedly denied food and water.
*2417 Croatian Centre for Collecting Documentation and Processing Data on the Liberation War, «Weekly Bulletin No. 12», 25 October 1993, 004 B-H-Prijedor, IHRLI Doc. No. 43737.
*2418 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 247, IHRLI Doc. No. 57140-57141.
*2419 Croatian Centre for Collecting Documentation and Processing Data on the Liberation War, «Weekly Bulletin No. 12», 25 October 1993, 002 B-H-Prijedor, IHRLI Doc. No. 43737. Subject reported that on approximately 28 May 1992, prisoners were severely abused in transit from the Keraterm camp to the Omarska camp and upon arrival at Omarska.
*2420 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-14, IHRLI Doc. No. 56364-56365.
*2421 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 202, IHRLI Doc. No. 56975-56978.
*2422 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 213, IHRLI Doc. No. 57027-57029. Subject stated that he was captured by forces which included a school friend who arranged for subject and his brother to change into civilian clothes. Subject stated that the friend warned the two brothers not to admit to Serb authorities that they had been fighting, or they would be «liquidated». The subject reportedly escaped from the Omarska camp after 72 days.
*2423 Republic of Croatia, Division of Information and Research, Ministry of Health of the Republic of Croatia, Testimony PRIJ-408, IHRLI Doc. No. 39578A-39581A.
*2424 Information Submitted by the Government of France, 5 November 1992, U.N. Doc. S/24768, IHRLI Doc. No. 1330.
*2425 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 263, IHRLI Doc. No. 57185-57187.
*2426 An Official UN Source, IHRLI Doc. No. 3301.
*2427 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 206, IHRLI Doc. No. 57001-57004.
*2428 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 227, IHRLI Doc. No. 57068.
*2429 Croatian Information Centre, Department for Collecting Documentation and Processing Data on the Liberation War, Written Statement: jad1ea, IHRLI Doc. No. 14577-14578; see also for similar statement by same female subject, US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-228, IHRLI Doc. No. 57072- 57074; Helsinki Watch, War Crimes in Bosnia-Hercegovina, Volume II (April 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 9380-9381.
*2430 Helsinki Watch, War Crimes in Bosnia-Hercegovina, Volume II (April 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 9386-9387.
*2431 United Kingdom Defence Debriefing Team, «Debrief of CFN 059», 9 September 1993, IHRLI Doc. No. 40064-40065. The subject reported that Prijedor was attacked on 30 May 1992, and that he and his two sons moved into an empty apartment. He reported that on 2 June 1992, at about 6:30 a.m., four Serb «Special Militia» arrested him and his two sons and their cousin, and took them all to the police station in Prijedor by truck. Subject reported that after his arrest on 2 June 1992, he was interrogated. Subject stated that during his initial interrogation he was asked questions about what he had been doing over the last six months and where Muslim members of the «militia» were located. The subject, stated that he was also accused of helping Muslim forces and buying weapons, but that he was not physically beaten. The subject stated that he was released that day, and was given a «safe conduct» pass. For the next 20 days, subject and his sons reportedly lived in the concrete garage of their burned-out home. On 4 July 1992, subject was reportedly arrested again and taken to the Prijedor police station.
*2432 According to the subject, his captors were apparently suspicious of the fact that his passport showed that he had returned to BiH after the outbreak of the war.
*2433 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 206, IHRLI Doc. No. 57001-57004.
*2434 See US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 183, IHRLI Doc. 56903-56904.
*2435 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 197, IHRLI Doc. No. 56949-56950.
*2436 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 183, IHRLI Doc. No. 56903-56904.
*2437 Helsinki Watch, War Crimes in Bosnia-Hercegovina, Volume II (April 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 9383. Subject reported that he arrived in Omarska via bus after the village of Kevljani fell to Serbian forces in late May 1992.
*2438 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 203, IHRLI Doc. No. 56979-56981.
*2439 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-3, IHRLI Doc. No. 56328-56331.
*2440 US Committee for Refugees, «Voices from the Whirlwind: Bosnian Testimonies», April-May 1993, IHRLI Doc. No. 21591-21627, at 21609-21617. Subject stated that the prisoners had to kneel on the floor on the bus, which was very hot and overcrowded. He added that the prisoners were beaten during the bus ride and that three prisoners died during the journey.
*2441 Croatian Centre for Collecting Documentation and Processing Data on the Liberation War, «Weekly Bulletin No. 8», 27 September 1993, 011 B-H-Ljubija, IHRLI Doc. No. 40342.
*2442 Written statement submitted by the Croatian Information Centre, Department for Collecting Documentation and Processing Data on the Liberation War, Statement luka6ea, Croat male (1950), Zagreb, 3 December 1992, (there is no IHRLI Number).
*2443 Croatian Information Centre, «Weekly Bulletin No. 8», 27 September 1993, 009 B-H-Prijedor, IHRLI Doc. No. 40341-40342.
*2444 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-70, IHRLI Doc. No. 56546-56548.
*2445 Republic of Croatia, Division of Information and Research, Ministry of Health of the Republic of Croatia, Testimony PRIJ-408, IHRLI Doc. No. 39578A-39581A.
*2446 Statement submitted by the Bosnia-Herzegovina Information Centre, London, IHRLI Doc. No. 2984A39.
*2447 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 241, IHRLI Doc. No. 57116-57119.
*2448 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 231, IHRLI Doc. No. 57082-57085. Subject did indicate whether those prisoners were ever transported out of Omarska.
*2449 World Campaign «Save Humanity», «Report On War Destructions, Violation of Human Rights and Crimes Against Humanity in Bosnia and Hercegovina», Statement by N6, IHRLI Doc. No. 693.
*2450 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 104, IHRLI Doc. No. 56653-56654.
*2451 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-71, IHRLI Doc. No. 56549-56551. Subject was reportedly included in this transfer to Trnopolje.
*2452 United Kingdom Defence Debriefing Team (DDT), «Summary No. 14 of Atrocity Information, CFN 405», IHRLI Doc. No. 43247. Subject stated that the 200 were prisoners all had, in one way or another, upset the Serbs. For example, they had hunting weapons found in their homes, had written articles criticizing Serb intentions, etc. Subject stated that all of the men had been given a hard time at the camp.
*2453 Id., IHRLI Doc. No. 43242.
*2454 Roy Gutman, «Death Camp Horrors: Survivors Detail Serbian Atrocities», Newsday, 18 October 1992, IHRLI Doc. No. 35553-35568. Newsday first reported mass killing at Omarska and other camps on 2 August, and five days later, as television pictures of emaciated prisoners were aired, Serb authorities reportedly closed the camp and dispersed its population. US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-183, IHRLI Doc. No. 56903-56904; Roy Gutman, «Back From the Dead, Freed Prisoners Detail Massacres», A Witness to Genocide 84 (1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 24941-24947, at 24944.
*2455 Austrian Mission, Submission of Information Pursuant to Paragraph 5 of Security Council Resolution 771 (1992) and Paragraph 1 of Security Council Resolution 780 (1992) (11 February 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 12321; Video Archive and Database, Scene Breakdown, Sudwest-3, «War Victims: A Time to Mourn, Part 2», 12 October 1993, Tape No. 151, at 41-2. It was also reported that there were some prisoners who disappeared during the disbanding of the camp.
*2456 For representative accounts of this transfer see, Information Submitted by the Government of France, 5 November 1992, U.N. Doc. S/24768, IHRLI Doc. No. 1330; US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-232, IHRLI Doc. No. 57086-57089; US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-241, IHRLI Doc. No. 57116-57119. According to the subject, on 7 August 1992, after an overnight stay on the buses at Manjaca, six prisoners were killed by the guards who had escorted them from Omarska. US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-206, IHRLI Doc. No. 57001-57004. Subject stated that some time around 4 August 1992, he was loaded into one of 18 buses and transported to Manjaca. US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-227, IHRLI Doc. No. 57068-57069. Report that on 7 August 1992, approximately 2,300 prisoners were transported to Manjaca and that camp officials at Manjaca appeared to have a computerized list of the incoming prisoners' names. Statement submitted by the BiH Information Centre, IHRLI Doc. No. 48739-48742. Subject stated that he sat behind the bus driver and that a police officer in civilian clothes kicked him in the head and ribs, struck him with a rifle butt and forced to him sing «cetnik» songs. Republic of Croatia, Division of Information and Research, Ministry of Health of the Republic of Croatia, Testimony PRIJ- 408, IHRLI Doc. No. 39578A-39581A. Subject stated that on 6 August 1992, 1,000 prisoners were transported to Trnopolje and 1,300 others were sent to Manjaca in 17 buses. The subject named numerous individuals said to have accompanied the convoy to Manjaca and to have brutalized the prisoners. Statement submitted by the BiH Information Centre, London, IHRLI Doc. No. 2984A29- 2984A31. Subject identified a prisoner who was taken out of the bus six times to be beaten en route to Manjaca. Croatian Centre for Collecting Documentation and Processing Data on the Liberation War, «Weekly Bulletin No. 8», 27 September 1993, 005 B- H-Prijedor, IHRLI Doc. No. 40342. Subject stated that on 6 August, some 18-19 buses took prisoners to Manjaca and that there were approximately 80 prisoners in each bus who were subject to abuse. Statement submitted by the BiH Information Centre, London, IHRLI Doc. No. 2984A65-2984A68. Subject stated that 1,500 out of the original 3,000 prisoners were transported to the Manjaca camp. Subject added that he witnessed constant beatings and abuse on the buses. Statement submitted by the BiH Information Centre, London, IHRLI Doc. No. 2984A43-2984A46. Subject stated that he was part of the transfer to Manjaca and that 180 men who looked more presentable were left at Omarska. Croatian Centre for Collecting Documentation and Processing Data on the Liberation War, «Weekly Bulletin No. 9», 4 October 1993, 003 B-H-Omarska- Manjaca, IHRLI Doc. No. 40347. Subject stated that he was put on the last of 14 buses which took prisoners to the Manjaca camp. He stated that after their departure, some 180 prisoners remained at the Omarska camp. US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-233, IHRLI Doc. No. 57090-57092. Subject stated that the transfer occurred on about 8 August, and 1,300 prisoners were taken to the Manjaca camp. He also described killings bayonet during the night at Manjaca. US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-108, IHRLI Doc. No. 56663-56666. Subject stated that on 6 August 1992, there was a roll-call and approximately 1,200 prisoners were loaded onto 11 buses which left for the Manjaca camp. Subject estimated that each bus contained 100-115 prisoners and four guards. Subject also described the poor conditions on the bus; Helsinki Watch, War Crimes in Bosnia- Hercegovina, Volume II (April 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 9374. Helsinki Watch reported that it spoke to Muslims in the Banja Luka area who stated that on 6 August 1992, a large convoy of 15- 18 trucks and buses drove through the city. The convoy was reportedly carrying prisoners who had their heads shaved, and was coming from the direction of the Omarska camp, headed in the direction of the Manjaca camp. Serbian military officials reportedly confirmed this allegation. United Kingdom Defence Debriefing Team, «Debrief of CFN 059», 9 September 1993, IHRLI Doc. No. 40064, 40073. Subject stated that on 6 August 1992, 17 buses filled with prisoners, including the subject, were sent to the Manjaca camp between 1:00 and 4:00 p.m. and another 800 were taken to the pista at 6:00 p.m. and were taken to the Trnopolje camp. Helsinki Watch, War Crimes in Bosnia-Hercegovina, Volume II (April 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 9405. Subject stated that he was transferred by bus to Manjaca in a convoy of 15 buses which left Omarska at 3:00 p.m. The subject reported that one of the men on his bus was killed when «[a] soldier hit the man in the chest with his rifle. The man cried out, [and] the soldier stabbed him in the mouth with his bayonet. Then the body was thrown out of the bus. I don't know the victim's name.»
*2457 See above listed accounts and the report on the Manjaca camp for additional details on this transfer.
*2458 Republic of Croatia, Division of Information and Research, Ministry of Health of the Republic of Croatia, Testimony PRIJ-408, IHRLI Doc. No. 39578A-39581A.
*2459 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-14, IHRLI Doc. No. 56364-56366.
*2460 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 231, IHRLI Doc. No. 57082-57085. Subject stated that on 3 August 1992, the Omarska camp was emptied of most of its prisoners. He stated that on that morning a camp official began reading a list of prisoner names, including people who had been killed, previously released or transferred, and people whose fate was unknown. He added that the reading of the list lasted all morning. Subject reported that the prisoners were required to stand in two groups and that one group of 780 prisoners was sent to the Trnopolje camp and second group of 1,200 inmates was transported in 21 buses to the Manjaca camp. Helsinki Watch War Crimes in Bosnia-Hercegovina, Volume II (April 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 9403. Subject reported that several hundred men were taken to Trnopolje on 6 August 1992, and that most of the remaining prisoners were transferred to the Manjaca camp, while approximately 180 remained at Omarska.
*2461 Video Archive and Database, Scene Breakdown, Sudwest- 3, «War Victims: A Time to Mourn, Part 2», 12 October 1993, Tape No. 151, at 38.
*2462 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 228, IHRLI Doc. No. 57072-57074.
*2463 Republic of Croatia, Division of Information and Research, Ministry of Health of the Republic of Croatia, Testimony PRIJ-408, IHRLI Doc. No. 39578A-39581A.
*2464 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 231, IHRLI Doc. No. 57082-57085. Subject stated that on 2 August 1992, 36 of the 40 women at the Omarska camp were sent to the Trnopolje camp. The subject added that four of the camp's female prisoners were retained along with 140 male prisoners to help clean the facility. Subject identified three of the women reportedly transferred and four of the women left behind. United Kingdom Defence Debriefing Team, «Debrief of CFN 059», 9 September 1993, IHRLI Doc. No. 40064, 40068. Subject stated that when the Omarska camp was closed, 33 of the women held there were transferred to Trnopolje and the remaining five stayed at Omarska.
*2465 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 241, IHRLI Doc. No. 57116-57119.
*2466 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 197, IHRLI Doc. No. 56949-56954.
*2467 Croatian Centre for Collecting Documentation and Processing Data on the Liberation War, «Weekly Bulletin No. 12», 25 October 1993, 002 B-H-Prijedor, IHRLI Doc. No. 43739. Subject identified female and male prisoners reportedly remaining at the Omarska camp.
*2468 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 204, IHRLI Doc. No. 56982-56993, testimony of female ex-prisoner from Kozarac, a former agricultural technician who was held at the camp from 26 May 1992 to 23 August 1992.
*2469 Croatian Centre for Collecting Documentation and Processing Data on the Liberation War, «Weekly Bulletin No. 12», 25 October 1993, 003 B-H-Prijedor, IHRLI Doc. No. 43739.
*2470 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 197, IHRLI Doc. No. 56949-56954; Helsinki Watch Report, War Crimes in Bosnia-Hercegovina, Volume II (April 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 9404.
*2471 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 165, IHRLI Doc. No. 56844-56849.
*2472 Video Archive and Database, Scene Breakdown, Sudwest- 3, «War Victims: A Time to Mourn, Part 2», 12 October 1993, Tape No. 151, at 28.
*2473 United Kingdom Defence Debriefing Team (DDT), «Summary No. 19 of Atrocity Information, CFN 629», IHRLI Doc. No. 43257.
*2474 United Kingdom Defence Debriefing Team (DDT), «Summary No. 19 of Atrocity Information, CFN 678», IHRLI Doc. No. 43260. Subject stated that special preparations were made for a BBC or CNN TV visit to the camp and that all except 170 of the prisoners were moved out of the camp. Subject added that beds were installed, but that the prisoners were not allowed to use them. The prisoners were also told to say that they had been at the camp for only a few days and that Omarska was only a transit camp.
*2475 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 202, IHRLI Doc. No. 56975-56978.
*2476 Video Archive and Database, Scene Breakdown, Sudwest- 3, «War Victims: A Time to Mourn, Part 2», 12 October 1993, Tape No. 151, at 26.
*2477 A woman purported to be Nada Balaban, is pictured in the ITN report at IHRLI Doc. No. 52998.
*2478 The ITN report features a photograph of what the reporter said appeared to be the «larger of the two buildings», where the prisoners were kept.
*2479 Video Archive and Database, Scene Breakdown, Independent Television News, BBC, IHRLI Doc. No. 52997-53003; Video Archive and Database, Scene Breakdown, «Dispatches: A Town Called Kozarac», IHRLI Doc. No. 52958-52988, at 52976-52977. This report contains sections of the above ITN report; Video Archive and Database, Scene Breakdown, Sudwest-3, «War Victims: A Time to Mourn, Part 2», 12 October 1993, Tape No. 151, at 26-31. Report contains an interview with ITN reporter Penny Marshall, and sections of her previous report on the Omarska camp.
*2480 Helsinki Watch, War Crimes in Bosnia-Hercegovina, Volume II (April 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 9375, 9378. Helsinki Watch reported that during its visit, approximately 180 men were known to be detained at the camp. The prisoners reportedly had bunk beds and blankets, but had been given them only three days before. It also reported that during the visit the camp guards demonstrated how «well treated» the prisoners were by taking fifteen prisoners to a cafeteria where they were fed beans, a portion of meat and a quarter loaf of bread. In the presence of many guards, the prisoners also stated that they had been at the camp only for a few days and that they received the same food every day.
*2481 Stephen Engelberg and Chuck Sudetic, «Clearer Picture of Bosnia Camps: A Brutal Piece of a Larger Plan, Killings Described as Too Random to Be Genocide», New York Times, 16 August 1992, IHRLI Doc. No. 40044-40045.
*2482 ICRC, «Prisoners Regularly Visited in Connection With the Conflict by the ICRC in Bosnia-Herzegovina», IHRLI Doc. No. 16835. This ICRC report indicates that the Omarska camp was «empty» on the ICRC's 12 August 1992 visit.
*2483 Amnesty International, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Gross Abuses of Basic Human Rights (October 1992), IHRLI Doc. No. 50201.
*2484 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 197, IHRLI Doc. No. 56949-56954.
*2485 Croatian Centre for Collecting Documentation and Processing Data on the Liberation War, «Weekly Bulletin No. 12», 25 October 1993, 002 B-H-Prijedor, IHRLI Doc. No. 43739.
*2486 Video Archive and Database, Scene Breakdown, «Dispatches: A Town Called Kozarac», IHRLI Doc. No. 52958-52988, at 52983. This same report also contains a photograph of the man identified as Milomir Stakic.
*2487 Roy Gutman, «Death Camp Horrors: Survivors Detail Serbian Atrocities», Newsday, 18 October 1992, IHRLI Doc. No. 35553-35568, at 35558.
*2488 Id.
*2489 Helsinki Watch, War Crimes in Bosnia-Hercegovina, Volume II (April 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 9374, 9378.
*2490 Video Archive and Database, Scene Breakdown, «Dispatches: A Town Called Kozarac», IHRLI Doc. No. 52958-52988, at 52982.
*2491 Video Archive and Database Scene Breakdown, ITN Reports, IHRLI Doc. No. 52997-53012, at 53007; Video Archive and Database Scene Breakdown, CNN Clips, IHRLI Doc. No. 53071-53092, at 53088 (same report as ITN above).
*2492 United Kingdom Defence Debriefing Team (DDT), «Summary No. 14 of Atrocity Information, CFN 405», IHRLI Doc. No. 43246.
*2493 Helsinki Watch, War Crimes in Bosnia-Hercegovina, Volume II (April 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 9408-9409. According to Helsinki Watch, Politika and Borba reported that the Assembly of the «Serbian Republic» had elected a prime minister and cabinet at its 30 January 1993, session in Pale, and that Radoslav Brdjanin was identified as the newly appointed minister for urban affairs.
*2494 Id. The female subject reported that the women in the camp were not shown to Mr. Brdjanin.
*2495 Video Archive and Database, Scene Breakdown, Sudwest- 3, «War Victims: A Time to Mourn, Part 2», 12 October 1993, Tape No. 151, at 30.
*2496 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-97, IHRLI Doc. No. 56629-56631. Subject identified the five individuals reportedly executed. Those individuals included: a Muslim policeman from Prijedor; the Democratic Action Party (SDA) Deputy; the Prijedor Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) Party Representative; the Muslim chief of the local defence forces before the war; and the Prijedor Mayor before the war.
*2497 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-97, IHRLI Doc. No. 56629-56631. The subject identified and implicated the chief of the Prijedor SDS Party; the Prijedor Chief of Police; and the head of the Prijedor City Council, who subject considered to be the worst of the three.
*2498 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-97, IHRLI Doc. No. 56629-56631; US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-27, IHRLI Doc. No. 56405-56410.
*2499 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-97, IHRLI Doc. No. 56629-56631; US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-27, IHRLI Doc. No. 56405-56410.
*2500 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-97, IHRLI Doc. No. 56629-56631; US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-27, IHRLI Doc. No. 56405-56410. Subject stated that the prosecutor wore the JNA uniform and had been a bailiff in the Prijedor court system prior to the war.
*2501 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-27, IHRLI Doc. No. 56405-56410.
*2502 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-97, IHRLI Doc. No. 56629-56631.
*2503 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-27, IHRLI Doc. No. 56405-56410.
*2504 Id. Subject alleged several persons to be the Prijedor MUP inspectors and staff. These individuals are named in the source materials.
*2505 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-25, IHRLI Doc. No. 56398-56402. Subject stated the Emergency Operation Centres seemed to be more important and wielded more power than the MUPs. Subject also did not know whether the power of the Emergency Operations Centres was official or unofficial.
*2506 Id. According to the subject, the flow of orders for emergency operations, including orders for the internment and/or execution of residents of Prijedor, came from the Banja Luka Emergency Operations Centre. The orders reportedly came from the Banja Luka MUP either through the Prijedor MUP or Prijedor Emergency Operations Centre. The subject also stated that there may also have been a delineation of the channel of communication by functional areas of responsibility between the MUP and the Emergency Operations Centre.
*2507 Id. Subject identified a named individual as the Prijedor Chief of Police and member of the Serbian Democratic Party (SDS). She also named one individual who she claimed was the chief's assistant at the MUP and other individuals who were members of the Prijedor Police Department and who she believed were SDS members. Subject also reported two alleged members of the Prijedor Emergency Operation Centre. Subject reported that the chief, as a member of the MUP or as Police Chief, was believed to have ordered the imprisonment of several named Muslims and Croatians, including: a judge; an economist; a former President of the HDZ; the former Mayor of Prijedor; doctors; and another individual.
*2508 Helsinki Watch, War Crimes in Bosnia Hercegovina (August 1992), IHRLI Doc. No. 352.
*2509 US Committee for Refugees, «Voices from the Whirlwind: Bosnian Refugee Testimonies, April-May 1993», IHRLI Doc. No. 21595-21627, at 21609-21617.
*2510 Amnesty International, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Gross Abuses of Basic Human Rights (October 1992), IHRLI Doc. No. 50201.
*2511 An Official UN Source, IHRLI Doc. No. 3301.
*2512 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 213, IHRLI Doc. No. 57027-57029.
*2513 United Kingdom Defence Debriefing Team (DDT), «Summary No. 14 of Atrocity Information, CFN 405», IHRLI Doc. No. 43241. Subject added that at the same time shots were heard outside. Apparently, a guard shot and killed five running prisoners. Subject added that the camp commander seized the weapon and marched the guard away.
*2514 Austrian Mission, Submission of Information Pursuant to Paragraph 5 of Security Council Resolution 771 (1992) and Paragraph 1 of Security Council Resolution 780 (1992) (11 February 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 12322.
*2515 Id.
*2516 Id., IHRLI Doc. No. 12325.
*2517 The subject stated that the guards started hitting the health care provider and accused him of castrating Serbian children.
*2518 Croatian Centre for Collecting Documentation and Processing Data on the Liberation War, «Weekly Bulletin No. 12», 25 October 1993, 002 B-H-Prijedor, IHRLI Doc. No. 43737.
*2519 Croatian Information Centre, «Weekly Bulletin No. 6», 13 September 1993, No. 002 B-H-Prijedor, IHRLI Doc. No. 35755.
*2520 Helsinki Watch, War Crimes in Bosnia-Hercegovina, Volume II (April 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 93884. The subject reported that one of the prisoners was wounded, escaped, and was brought back to the camp about one month later. The subject added that the bodies of the three prisoners killed were not removed and lay on the ground for seven days in the heat.
*2521 United Kingdom Defence Debriefing Team (DDT), «Special Report on Omarska Camp, Annex C to JSIO 2841-19», 25 March 1994, IHRLI Doc. No. 63795 (CFN 405, DOI 15 February 93, EDI May-August 92).
*2522 Canadian Mission, Second Submission pursuant to Security Council resolution 771 (1992), U.N. Doc. S/26016 (30 June 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 29783-29785.
*2523 Croatian Centre for Collecting Documentation and Processing Data on the Liberation War, «Weekly Bulletin No. 8», 27 September 1993, 009 B-H-Prijedor, IHRLI Doc. No. 40341-40342; Croatian Centre for Collecting Documentation and Process Data on the Liberation War, «Weekly Bulletin No. 8», 27 September 1993, 011 B-H-Ljubija, IHRLI Doc. 40342. Subject stated upon arrival at the Omarska camp, guards at the entrance took away his personal documents and money and physically maltreated him. Written statement submitted by the Croatian Information Centre, Department for Collecting Documentation and Processing Data on the Liberation War, Zagreb, 3 December 1992, Statement luka6ea, Croat male (1950). Subject stated that soon after his arrival at the camp in early July 1992, four Serbs came into the room where he was being held and asked for dinars, foreign currency, gold and watches. Helsinki Watch, War Crimes in Bosnia-Hercegovina, Volume II (April 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 9386. Subject reported that after arriving at the camp from Kozarac in late May 1992, he was taken to room number 26 where he and others were threatened and robbed. The subject stated that the guards at the camp would come into the room and order the prisoners to put their watches and shoes in a pile. The subject added that guards would sometimes tell prisoners that lives could be spared if they gave them 100 German marks and that prisoners would then collect money until they had no money left.
*2524 Austrian Mission, Submission of Information Pursuant to Paragraph 5 of Security Council Resolution 771 (1992) and Paragraph 1 of Security Council Resolution 780 (1992) (11 February 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 12321.
*2525 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-3, IHRLI Doc. No. 56328-56331.
*2526 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 261, IHRLI Doc. No. 57202-57206.
*2527 United Kingdom Defence Debriefing Team (DDT), «Summary No. 14 of Atrocity Information, CFN 405», IHRLI Doc. No. 43241-46242.
*2528 Croatian Information Centre, «Weekly Bulletin No. 8», 27 September 1993, 009 B-H-Prijedor, IHRLI Doc. No. 40341-40342.
*2529 Statement submitted by the BiH Information Centre, London, IHRLI Doc. No. 2984A59.
*2530 Statement submitted by the BiH Information Centre, London, IHRLI Doc. No. 2984A43-2984A46.
*2531 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 233, IHRLI Doc. No. 57090-57092.
*2532 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-14, IHRLI Doc. No. 56364-56366.
*2533 US Committee for Refugees, «Voices from the Whirlwind: Bosnian Testimonies, April-May 1993», IHRLI Doc. No. 21591-21627, at 21609-21617.
*2534 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 202, IHRLI Doc. No. 56975-56978.
*2535 Id.
*2536 Croatian Centre for Collecting Documentation and Processing Data on the Liberation War, «Weekly Bulletin No. 8», 27 September 1993, 006 B-H-Prijedor, IHRLI Doc. No. 40342-40343.
*2537 Information Submitted by the Government of France, 5 November 1992, U.N. Doc. S/24768, IHRLI Doc. No. 1330.
*2538 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 241, IHRLI Doc. No. 57116-57119.
*2539 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 227, IHRLI Doc. No. 57068.
*2540 Id.
*2541 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-3, IHRLI Doc. No. 56328-56331.
*2542 Helsinki Watch, War Crimes in Bosnia-Hercegovina, Volume II (April 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 9384.
*2543 Austria Mission, Submission of Information Pursuant to Paragraph 5 of Security Council Resolution 771 (1992) and Paragraph 1 of Security Council Resolution 780 (1992) (11 February 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 12323.
*2544 For example, See US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-71, IHRLI Doc. No. 56549-56551; Statement submitted by BiH Information Centre, London, IHRLI Doc. No. 2984A11- 2984A15. Subject stated that he was beaten during interrogation sessions by soldiers using chains and truncheons. Statement submitted by BiH Information Centre, London, IHRLI Doc. No. 2984A17-2984A20. Subject stated that one day he and another cellmate were ordered to escort a prisoner for «investigation» and that the prisoner could not walk since he had, during an earlier «investigation», wooden nails pierced through his knees. Subject stated that the prisoner was never seen again. Republic of BiH, Group For Collecting Facts About War Crimes, Case File 734/1992, 31 July 1992, IHRLI Doc. No. 31932-31937. Subject stated that during his time at the camp, interrogations followed by beatings were practised daily. Statement submitted by the BiH Information Centre, London, IHRLI Doc. No. 2984A29-2984A31. Subject stated that upon arrival at Omarska in late May 1992, the prisoners were interrogated one by one and that all were beaten by rifles, iron bars, and various metal objects. Croatian Centre for Collecting Documentation and Processing Data on the Liberation War, «Weekly Bulletin No. 8», 27 September 1993, 006 B- H-Prijedor, IHRLI Doc. No. 40342-40343. Subject stated that prisoners were frequently interrogated and that investigators and guards would kick them and beat them with their fists and various metal and wooden objects.
*2545 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 183, IHRLI Doc. No. 56903-56904. Subject identified a number of alleged victims including a lawyer, a financial director of a mine, and a judge.
*2546 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 108, IHRLI Doc. No. 56664-56666.
*2547 United Kingdom Defence Debriefing Team, «Debrief of CFN 059», 9 September 1993, IHRLI Doc. No. 40064, 40068. Subject added that at the conclusion of an interrogation the inspector gave a «thumbs up» once if the prisoner was to be returned to one of the holding areas or a «thumbs-up» twice if the prisoner was to be taken to the «death cell» in the hangar-like building and thereafter by night to the «red house» for killing.
*2548 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 204, IHRLI Doc. No. 56982-56993, testimony of female ex-prisoner from Kozarac.
*2549 Video Archive and Database, Scene Breakdown, Sudwest- 3, «War Victims: A Time to Mourn, Part 2», 12 October 1993, Tape No. 151, at 11. Testimony by a female Muslim and female Croatian who were held at the camp.
*2550 Id., 119. Testimony by a female Croatian who was held at the camp.
*2551 Id., at 9. Testimony by a female who was held at the camp.
*2552 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-3, IHRLI Doc. No. 56328-56331.
*2553 United Kingdom Defence Debriefing Team, «Debrief of CFN 059», 9 September 1993, IHRLI Doc. No. 40064, 40068.
*2554 Austrian Mission, Submission of Information Pursuant to Paragraph 5 of Security Council Resolution 771 (1992) and Paragraph 1 of Security Council Resolution 780 (1992) (11 February 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 12323.
*2555 Information Submitted by the Government of France, 5 November 1992, U.N. Doc. S/24768, IHRLI Doc. No. 1330.
*2556 Austrian Mission, Submission of Information Pursuant to Paragraph 5 of Security Council Resolution 771 (1992) and Paragraph 1 of Security Council Resolution 780 (1992) (11 February 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 12324.
*2557 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 104, IHRLI Doc. No. 56653-56654.
*2558 The subject reported that the walls of the hallway on the second floor were splattered with blood.
*2559 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 231, IHRLI Doc. No. 57082-57085. Subject commented that it appeared that the determination concerning category had been made prior to the interrogation session.
*2560 Video Archive and Database, Scene Breakdown, ABC News Nightline, «Bosnia: The Hidden Horrors, Part Two, 11 November 1992, IHRLI Doc. No. 32147-32154, at 32151.
*2561 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 231, IHRLI Doc. No. 57082-57085.
*2562 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 165, IHRLI Doc. No. 56844-56849. There was speculation that the data obtained was used in part to develop prisoner listings, as the camp officials had lists of the prisoners' names.
*2563 US Committee for Refugees, «Voices from the Whirlwind: Bosnian Testimonies», April-May 1993, IHRLI Doc. No. 21591-21627, at 21609-21617.
*2564 World Campaign «Save Humanity», «Report On War Destructions, Violation of Human Rights and Crimes Against Humanity in Bosnia and Hercegovina», Statement by N6, IHRLI Doc. No. 693.
*2565 Subject stated that this was because he fully cooperated and answered all of the questions to the best of his knowledge on the assumption that most of the facts were already known by his captors.
*2566 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 261, IHRLI Doc. No. 57202-57206. Subject stated that towards the end of the interrogation he was asked by the interrogator (identified), whether he wanted to become an informant, to which he refused.
*2567 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 246, IHRLI Doc. No. 57137-57139.
*2568 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 227, IHRLI Doc. No. 57068.
*2569 Helsinki Watch, War Crimes in Bosnia-Hercegovina, Volume II (April 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 9387.
*2570 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 263, IHRLI Doc. No. 57185-57187.
*2571 United Kingdom Defence Debriefing Team (DDT), «Special Report on Omarska Camp, Annex C to JSIO 2841-19», 25 March 1994, IHRLI Doc. No. 63798 (CFN 1713, DOI 09 December 1993, EDI July 1992).
*2572 Subject was reportedly in the territorial defence forces in Kevljani before the war.
*2573 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 197, IHRLI Doc. No. 56949-56954. The subject stated that he was beaten for three hours and taken back to his room at 5:00 a.m.. He said that he took one step into the room and fainted, and then lost complete control of his body and had a diarrhea attack (subject added that he was unable to wash himself for over one month). He stated that he was unconscious for two days when guards came calling for him to exit the room. Subject said that he was unable to walk and was put into a blanket and taken into the hallway by six other prisoners. One guard then reportedly asked him where his hunting rifle and bullets were. Subject stated that he was then carried from the hallway and placed in another room of 36 men who were all sick. He stated that he occupied a space about 80 centimetres long, behind the door, and lay in a foetal position for several days. He added that received no medical attention and that one day, a guard came into the room to beat prisoners at random. Subject stated that about two weeks later he put in a much larger room (Room 15) with several hundred men for 37 days and was left alone. He stated that one individual, whose brother was the camp commander, showed great interest in a list of 101 men from Kevljani and that subject underwent a third questioning within the next few days.
*2574 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 213, IHRLI Doc. No. 57027-57029.
*2575 US Committee for Refugees, «Voices from the Whirlwind: Bosnian Testimonies, April-May 1993», IHRLI Doc. No. 21591-21627, at 21609-21617. Subject described the rest of interrogation and identified the uniformed men in the room. After making a negative statement about the JNA, subject was reportedly beaten.
*2576 Helsinki Watch, War Crimes in Bosnia-Hercegovina, Volume II (April 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 9400.
*2577 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 241, IHRLI Doc. No. 57116-57119.
*2578 Roy Gutman, «Death Camp Horrors: Survivors Detail Serbian Atrocities», Newsday, 18 October 1992, IHRLI Doc. No. 35553-35568; Canadian Mission, Second Submission pursuant to Security Council resolution 771 (1992), U.N. Doc. S/26016 (30 June 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 29783-29785. Subject was transported to the camp from Kozarac in late May 1992, and reported that prisoners who arrived at the Omarska did not receive food for the first five days. Statement submitted by the BiH Information Centre, London, IHRLI Doc. No. 2984A29-2984A31. Subject stated that he was given no food for three days. US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-233, IHRLI Doc. No. 57090-57092. Subject stated that they were given water, but did not receive bread until the ninth day, and a meal until the 10th day at the camp. US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-261, IHRLI Doc. No. 57202-57206. Subject stated that during his first three to four days at the camp in the administration building, he received no food. He reported that the next day, after his interrogation, he received 750 grams of bread which was divided by 24 prisoners. Later, the same size bread was reportedly divided by eight prisoners. After four days, he reportedly received the usual prisoner food ration. US Committee for Refugees, «Voices from the Whirlwind: Bosnian Refugee Testimonies, April-May 1993», IHRLI Doc. No. 21595-21627, at 21609-21617. Subject stated that after arriving at the camp on 30 May 1992, he did not receive food for seven days. Helsinki Watch, War Crimes in Bosnia-Hercegovina, Volume II (April 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 9384. Subject reported that for the first 60 hours at the camp in late May 1992, they were given no food or water. Helsinki Watch, War Crimes in Bosnia-Hercegovina, Volume II (April 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 9387. Subject reported that upon arrival at the camp from Prijedor in late June 1992, he and about 2,000 other prisoners did not get food for three days.
*2579 Austrian Mission, Submission of Information Pursuant to Paragraph 5 of Security Council Resolution 771 (1992) and Paragraph 1 of Security Council Resolution 780 (1992) (11 February 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 12321; Video Archive and Database, Scene Breakdown, Sudwest-3, «War Victims: A Time to Mourn, Part 2», 12 October 1992, Tape No. 151, at 9. Testimony by a female Muslim engineer who was held at the camp that prisoners were given three minutes for their meal; US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-183, IHRLI Doc. Nos. 56903-56904.
*2580 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-14, IHRLI Doc. No. 56364-56366. Subject reported that each inmate received one meal a day consisting of 150 grams of bread and a bowl of vegetable soup. US Department of State Declassified Materials 94-71, IHRLI Doc. No. 56649-56651. Subject said that they were fed one small piece of bread and one-half to one cup of nondescript food per prisoner. US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-183, IHRLI Doc. No. 56903-56904. Subject said that they were fed a thin soup or gruel and a piece of bread. Roy Gutman, «Serbs' Death Camps, How the Guards Chose the Victims» A Witness to Genocide 60 (1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 24914-24918; Human Rights Questions: Human Rights Situations and Reports of the Special Rapporteurs and Representatives; Situation of Human Rights in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia, U.N. Doc. A/47/666, S/24809 (17 November 1992), IHRLI Doc. No. 1488, 1495-1497. Report stated that a single meal consisted mostly of bread, rice and water United Kingdom Defence Debriefing Team, «Debrief of CFN 059», 9 September 1993, IHRLI Doc. No. 40064, 40069. Subject reported that the meal usually consisted of a thin watery soup and a piece of bread not more than 100 grams in weight. According to the subject, the bread ration was a standard loaf divided into eight pieces.
*2581 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 165, IHRLI Doc. No. 56844-56849; US Committee for Refugees, «Voices from the Whirlwind: Bosnian Refugee Testimonies, April- May 1993», IHRLI Doc. No. 21595-21627, at 21609-17. Subject reported that prisoners received one-eighth loaf of bread every 48 hours, and leftover rotten food that soldiers had left on their plates. Helsinki Watch, War Crimes in Bosnia-Hercegovina, Volume II (April 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 9386. Subject reported that the prisoners normally had one meal per day but that sometimes there would be no food for over 60 hours.
*2582 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 251, IHRLI Doc. No. 57148-57150; United Kingdom Defence Debriefing Team (DDT), «Summary No. 14 of Atrocity Information, CFN 405», IHRLI Doc. No. 43243. Subject stated that food was brought in «soldiers containers» by trucks three or four times daily from the central mines canteen approximately three kilometres away. United Kingdom Defence Debriefing Team, «Debrief of CFN 059», 9 September 1993, IHRLI Doc. No. 40064, 40069. Subject stated that the food was not cooked in the camp, but was brought in from outside by truck.
*2583 Austrian Mission, Submission of Information Pursuant to Paragraph 5 of Security Council Resolution 771 (1992) and Paragraph 1 of Security Council Resolution 780 (1992) (11 February 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 12321.
*2584 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 197, IHRLI Doc. No. 56949-56950.
*2585 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 233, IHRLI Doc. No. 57090-57092.
*2586 Video Archive and Database, Scene Breakdown, Sudwest- 3, «War Victims: A Time to Mourn, Part 2», 12 October 1993, Tape No. 151, at 8. Testimony by a female Muslim engineer who was held at the camp.
*2587 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-3, IHRLI Doc. No. 56328-56331.
*2588 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 202, IHRLI Doc. No. 56975-56978.
*2589 Statement submitted by the BiH Information Centre, London, IHRLI Doc. No. 2984A65-2984A68.
*2590 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-14, IHRLI Doc. No. 56364-56366; US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-165, IHRLI Doc. No. 56844-56849; Canadian Mission, Second Submission pursuant to Security Council resolution 771 (1992), U.N. Doc. S/26016 (30 June 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 29783- 29785. Subject stated that for their one meal, the prisoners were forced within two minutes to get up, run, eat and run back to lay down in the parking lot again. Croatian Centre for Collecting Documentation and Processing Data on the Liberation War, «Weekly Bulletin No. 8», 27 September 1993, 004 B-H-Prijedor, IHRLI Doc. No. 40342. Subject stated that the prisoners were given two minutes to eat their meal and were brought into the canteen in groups of 30. US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 233, IHRLI Doc. No. 57090-57092. Subject stated that they were given 30 seconds for their meal. Roy Gutman, «Death Camp Horrors: Survivors Detail Serbian Atrocities», Newsday, 18 October 1992, IHRLI Doc. No. 35553-35568. Subject stated that after two or three minutes, the prisoners were taken back to the tarmac. Helsinki Watch, War Crimes in Bosnia-Hercegovina, Volume II (April 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 9384. Subject stated that 540 prisoners ate within 20 minutes in groups of 30. He stated that in three minutes the prisoners had to make a group, run to the kitchen, eat and return to their rooms. Helsinki Watch, War Crimes in Bosnia-Hercegovina, Volume II (April 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 9398. Subject reported that the prisoners had three minutes to form a group of 30, eat, and get back to their room. He stated that soldiers armed with sticks, stood in the front of the canteen, poised to beat the prisoners. The subject stated that the stew that they were fed was boiling hot and that the prisoners often burned the inside of their mouths in their haste to eat.
*2591 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 251, IHRLI Doc. No. 57148-57150.
*2592 Video Archive and Database, Scene Breakdown, Sudwest- 3, «War Victims: A Time to Mourn, Part 2», 12 October 1993, Tape No. 151, at 9. Testimony by a female Muslim engineer who was held at the camp.
*2593 Human Rights Questions: Human Rights Situations and Reports of the Special Rapporteurs and Representatives; Situation of Human Rights in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia, U.N. Doc. A/47/666, S/24809, 17 November 1992, IHRLI Doc. No. 1488, 1495-1497. Report stated that prisoners were forced to run the gauntlet in order to receive their meals; US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-3, IHRLI Doc. No. 56328-56331; US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-14, IHRLI Doc. No. 56364-56366; US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 202, IHRLI Doc. No. 56975-56978; US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-263, IHRLI Doc. No. 57185-57187; US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-246, IHRLI Doc. No. 57137-57139. Subject estimated that on the average, every second day, prisoners were beaten by guards on the way to the mess hall. Statement submitted by the BiH Information Centre, London, IHRLI Doc. No. 2984A43-2984A46; United Kingdom Defence Debriefing Team, «Debrief of CFN 059», 9 September 1993, IHRLI Doc. No. 40064, 40069. Subject reported that verbal abuse and beatings occurred throughout the meal, and afterwards, the prisoners were made to lie down on the track outside for four hours, and anybody who moved or looked up was beaten or trodden- on by the guards.
*2594 Austrian Mission, Submission of Information Pursuant to Paragraph 5 of Security Council Resolution 771 (1992) and Paragraph 1 of Security Council Resolution 780 (1992) (11 February 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 12322; US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-197, IHRLI Doc No. 56949-56950; US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-202, IHRLI Doc. No. 56975-56978; Mary Battiata, «Former Prisoners Allege Wholesale Serb Atrocities», Washington Post, IHRLI Doc. No. 35544- 35547; US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-233, IHRLI Doc. No. 57090-57092.
*2595 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 197, IHRLI Doc. No. 56949-56950.
*2596 United Kingdom Defence Debriefing Team (DDT), «Special Report on Omarska Camp, Annex C to JSIO 2841-19», 25 March 1994, IHRLI Doc. No. 63795 (CFN 405, DOI 15 February 93, EDI May-August 92); United Kingdom Defence Debriefing Team (DDT), «Special Report on Omarska Camp, Annex C to JSIO 2841-19», 25 March 1994, IHRLI Doc. No. 63797 (CFN 815, DOI 06 May 93, EDI Sep 92); Helsinki Watch War Crimes in Bosnia-Hercegovina, Volume II (April 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 9385, 9389; One subject reported that oil was sometimes put on the canteen floor to make the prisoners fall during their run to get something to eat.
*2597 Austrian Mission, Submission of Information Pursuant to Paragraph 5 of Security Council Resolution 771 (1992) and Paragraph 1 of Security Council Resolution 780 (1992) (11 February 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 12322.
*2598 Id., IHRLI Doc. No. 12322-12323.
*2599 Defence Debriefing Team (DDT), «Special Report on Omarska Camp, Annex C to JSIO 2841-19», 25 March 1994, IHRLI Doc. No. 63796-63797 (CFN 59, DOI 23-25-5-6 July 93, EDI May-November 92); United Kingdom Defence Debriefing Team, «Debrief of CFN 059», 9 September 1993, IHRLI Doc. No. 40064, 40071.
*2600 United Kingdom Defence Debriefing Team (DDT), «Special Report on Omarska Camp, Appendix 1 to Annex C to JSIO 2841-19», 25 March 1994, IHRLI Doc. No. 63799.
*2601 Republic of Croatia, Division of Information and Research, Ministry of Health of the Republic of Croatia, Testimony PRIJ-408, IHRLI Doc. No. 39578A-39581A.
*2602 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 197, IHRLI Doc. No. 56949-56950.
*2603 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 165, IHRLI Doc. No. 56844-56849.
*2604 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 183, IHRLI Doc. No. 56903-56904; US Committee for Refugees, «Voices from the Whirlwind: Bosnian Refugee Testimonies, April- May 1993», IHRLI Doc. No. 21595-21627, at 21609-21617. Subject stated that it appeared that fuel oil was mixed with the drinking water provided to prisoners. United Kingdom Defence Debriefing Team (DDT), «Summary No. 14 of Atrocity Information, CFN 405», IHRLI Doc. No. 43243. Subject stated that «industrial water» was provided to the prisoners. US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-246, IHRLI Doc. No. 57137-57139. The subject reported that the water provided to the prisoners was taken from the ore pits and that it was not fresh and was contaminated with diesel oil.
*2605 Statement submitted by the BiH Information Centre, London, IHRLI Doc. No. 2984A43-2984A46.
*2606 US Committee for Refugees, «Voices from the Whirlwind: Bosnian Refugee Testimonies, April-May 1993», IHRLI Doc. No. 21595-21627, at 21609-21617; Helsinki Watch Report, War Crimes in Bosnia-Hercegovina, Volume II (April 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 9386. Subject reported guards used to sell water, and that for 100 German marks, prisoners could buy a litre of clear clean water.
*2607 Statement submitted by BiH Information Centre, London, IHRLI Doc. No. 2984A17-2984A19.
*2608 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-71, IHRLI Doc. No. 56549-56551.
*2609 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 204, IHRLI Doc. No. 56982-56993; Roy Gutman, «Serbs' Death Camps, How the Guards Chose the Victims» A Witness to Genocide 60 (1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 24914-24918. One subject substantiated allegations about the camp and stated that he was held in a warehouse for 12 days in May, jammed in a room packed so tightly that no one could lie down to sleep.
*2610 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 204, IHRLI Doc. No. 56982-56993.
*2611 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 197, IHRLI Doc. No. 56949-56950.
*2612 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-71, IHRLI Doc. No. 56549-56551.
*2613 United Kingdom Defence Debriefing Team (DDT), «Summary No. 14 of Atrocity Information, CFN 405», IHRLI Doc. No. 43241.
*2614 Helsinki Watch, War Crimes in Bosnia-Hercegovina, Volume II (April 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 9384.
*2615 Statement submitted by BiH Information Centre, London, IHRLI Doc. No. 2984A17-2984A19.
*2616 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 165, IHRLI Doc. No. 56846-56849.
*2617 The subject estimated that four prisoners had less than one square metre of space.
*2618 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 261, IHRLI Doc. No. 57202-57206.
*2619 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 197, IHRLI Doc. No. 56949-56954.
*2620 United Kingdom Defence Debriefing Team (DDT), «Special Report on Omarska Camp, Annex C to JSIO 2841-19», 25 March 1994, IHRLI Doc. No. 63797 (CFN 815, DOI 06 May 93, EDI September 92).
*2621 Information Submitted by the Government of France, 5 November 1992, U.N. Doc. S/24768, IHRLI Doc. No. 1330.
*2622 Roy Gutman, «Death Camps: Survivors Tell of Captivity, Mass Slaughters in Bosnia» A Witness to Genocide 44 (1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 24896-24902; Roy Gutman, «Serbs' Death Camps, How the Guards Chose the Victims», A Witness to Genocide 60 (1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 24914-24918.
*2623 Roy Gutman, «Death Camps: Survivors Tell of Captivity, Mass Slaughters in Bosnia» A Witness to Genocide 44 (1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 24896-24902. Subject, a 63 year-old man from Kozarac, stated that he was held at the Omarska camp for one week in June and was probably released because of his age. He stated that he was held in an ore loader inside a cage roughly 700 square feet long with 300 other men awaiting processing by their captors. He stated that the metal structures contained cages stacked four high, separated by grates, and that there were no toilets.Roy Gutman, «Serbs' Death Camps, How the Guards Chose the Victims», A Witness to Genocide 60 (1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 24914-24918; Stephen Engelberg and Chuck Sudetic, «Clearer Picture of Bosnia Camps: A Brutal Piece of a Larger Plan, Killings Described as Too Random to Be Genocide», New York Times, 15 August 1992, 16 August 1992, IHRLI Doc. No. 40044-40045.
*2624 United Kingdom Defence Debriefing Team (DDT), «Summary No. 14 of Atrocity Information, CFN 405», IHRLI Doc. No. 43242.
*2625 Austrian Mission, Submission of Information Pursuant to Paragraph 5 of Security Council Resolution 771 (1992) and Paragraph 1 of Security Council Resolution 780 (1992) (11 February 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 12321; US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-165, IHRLI Doc. No. 56844-56849; US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-251, IHRLI Doc. No. 57148-57150; United Kingdom Defence Debriefing Team (DDT), «Summary No. 14 of Atrocity Information, CFN 405», IHRLI Doc. No. 43244.
*2626 Austrian Mission, Submission of Information by Austria Pursuant to Paragraph 5 of Security Council Resolution 771 (1992) and Paragraph 1 of Security Council Resolution 780 (1992) (11 February 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 12321; United Kingdom Defence Debriefing Team (DDT), «Summary No. 14 of Atrocity Information, CFN 405», IHRLI Doc. No. 43244. Subject, identified as a former veterinarian, stated that prisoners tended to rely on him for medical assistance. He reported that after a few weeks, two prisoners arrived in his room, both of whom were doctors. Subject stated that they performed operations using primitive instruments and would sew up prisoner wounds after beatings with ordinary cotton.
*2627 Austrian Mission, Submission of Information by Austria Pursuant to Paragraph 5 of Security Council Resolution 771 (1992) and Paragraph 1 of Security Council Resolution 780 (1992) (11 February 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 12322.
*2628 Statement submitted by the BiH Information Centre, London, IHRLI Doc. No. 2984A29-2984A31.
*2629 US Committee for Refugees, «Voices from the Whirlwind: Bosnian Refugee Testimonies, April-May 1993», IHRLI Doc. No. 21595-21627, at 21609-21617. The subject reported that a young diabetic man had died as a result of his beatings, and he was told to carry the man to the doctor in front of the «white house». According to the subject, he and another prisoner brought the body to the spot but the doctor did not come outside.
*2630 United Kingdom Defence Debriefing Team (DDT), «Summary No. 14 of Atrocity Information, CFN 405», IHRLI Doc. No. 43244.
*2631 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 246, IHRLI Doc. No. 57137-57139. Subject attributed the outbreak to the contaminated water given to the prisoners. US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-251, IHRLI Doc. No. 57148- 57150.
*2632 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 246, IHRLI Doc. No. 57137-57139.
*2633 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 251, IHRLI Doc. No. 57148-57150.
*2634 Roy Gutman, «Death Camp Horrors: Survivors Detail Serbian Atrocities», 18 October 1992, Newsday, IHRLI Doc. No. 35553-35568.
*2635 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 261, IHRLI Doc. No. 57202-57206.
*2636 United Kingdom Defence Debriefing Team (DDT), «Summary No. 14 of Atrocity Information, CFN 405», IHRLI Doc. No. 43244.
*2637 Roy Gutman, «Death Camp Horrors: Survivors Detail Serbian Atrocities», 18 October 1992, Newsday, IHRLI Doc. No. 35553-35568.
*2638 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 204, IHRLI Doc. No. 56982-56993; Helsinki Watch, War Crimes in Bosnia-Hercegovina, Volume II (April 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 9385. Subject reported that the prisoners were beaten going to the toilet, and were given one minute there. The subject added that eventually, his whole group of prisoners was given only one hour to use the toilet and that some prisoners did not get to use the facilities at all and had to relieve themselves in the corner of the room.
*2639 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-71, IHRLI Doc. No. 56549-56551. Subject was not clear as to whether these beatings took place in the latrine area, or in other areas. US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-263, IHRLI Doc. No. 57185-57187; US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-246, IHRLI Doc. No. 57137-57139; Statement submitted by the BiH Information Centre, London. IHRLI Doc. No. 2984A65-2984A68. Subject stated that on one occasion, following a beating, he went into a bathroom and was followed by a soldier. He reported that he did not use the toilet because he feared reprisals against his cellmates. Roy Gutman, «Death Camp Horrors: Survivors Detail Serbian Atrocities», Newsday, 18 October 1992, IHRLI Doc. No. 35553-35568. the report stated that beatings that accompanied trips to the toilet were so severe that former prisoners said that they preferred to defecate in their boots or in the rooms in which they slept.
*2640 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 246, IHRLI Doc. No. 57137-57139.
*2641 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-14, IHRLI Doc. No. 56364-56366.
*2642 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 251, IHRLI Doc. No. 57148-57150; United Kingdom Defence Debriefing Team (DDT), «Summary No. 14 of Atrocity Information, CFN 405», IHRLI Doc. No. 43243.
*2643 Statement submitted by the BiH Information Centre, London, IHRLI Doc. No. 2984A43-2984A46.
*2644 United Kingdom Defence Debriefing Team (DDT), «Summary No. 14 of Atrocity Information, CFN 405», IHRLI Doc. No. 43243.
*2645 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 261, IHRLI Doc. No. 57202-57206.
*2646 US Committee for Refugees, «Voices from the Whirlwind: Bosnian Refugee Testimonies, April-May 1993», IHRLI Doc. No. 21595-21627, at 21609-21617.
*2647 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 251, IHRLI Doc. No. 57148-57150; Helsinki Watch Report, War Crimes in Bosnia-Hercegovina, Volume II (April 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 9385; US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-261, IHRLI Doc. No. 57202-57206. It was reported that prisoners at Omarska received no soap and were not permitted to wash themselves.
*2648 Austrian Mission, Submission of Information Pursuant to Paragraph 5 of Security Council Resolution 771 (1992) and Paragraph 1 of Security Council Resolution 780 (1992) (11 February 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 12322.
*2649 Canadian Mission, Second Submission pursuant to Security Council resolution 771 (1992), U.N. Doc. S/26016 (30 June 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 29783-29785.
*2650 Roy Gutman, «Death Camp Horrors Survivors Detail Serbian Atrocities», Newsday, 18 October 1992, IHRLI Doc. No. 35553-35568.
*2651 Helsinki Watch, War Crimes in Bosnia-Hercegovina, Volume II (April 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 9385.
*2652 United Kingdom Defence Debriefing Team (DDT), «Summary No. 14 of Atrocity Information, CFN 405», IHRLI Doc. No. 43244.
*2653 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 246, IHRLI Doc. No. 57137-57139.
*2654 Statement submitted by BiH Information Centre, London, IHRLI Doc. No. 2984A17-2984A20.
*2655 United Kingdom Defence Debriefing Team (DDT), «Summary No. 14 of Atrocity Information, CFN 405», IHRLI Doc. No. 43244. The subject added that certain guards had supplied some anti-louse powder, but this was soon exhausted.
*2656 Id., IHRLI Doc. No. 43243. The subject also stated that after a while about 15 per cent of the prisoners began to receive parcels from their homes. He added that all parcels were searched and items were frequently looted by the guards.
*2657 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 202, IHRLI Doc. No. 56975-56978.
*2658 Statement submitted by BiH Information Centre, London, IHRLI Doc. No. 2984A17-2984A20.
*2659 Id., IHRLI Doc. No. 2984A23-A24.
*2660 US Committee for Refugees, «Voices from the Whirlwind: Bosnian Refugee Testimonies, April-May 1993, IHRLI Doc. No. 21595-21627, at 21609-21617.
*2661 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 261, IHRLI Doc. No. 57202-57206; Helsinki Watch, War Crimes in Bosnia-Hercegovina, Volume II (April 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 9390.
*2662 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 246, IHRLI Doc. No. 5137-5139.
*2663 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 165, IHRLI Doc. No. 56844-56849; US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-251, IHRLI Doc. No. 57148-57150.
*2664 United Kingdom Defence Debriefing Team, «Debrief of CFN 059», 9 September 1993, IHRLI Doc. No. 40064, 40069.
*2665 Information Submitted by the Government of France, 5 November 1992, U.N. Doc. S/24768, IHRLI Doc. No. 1330.
*2666 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 108, IHRLI Doc. No. 56663-56666.
*2667 United Kingdom Defence Debriefing Team (DDT), «Summary No. 14 of Atrocity Information, CFN 405», IHRLI Doc. No. 43242.
*2668 Human Rights Questions: Human Rights Situations and Reports of the Special Rapporteurs and Representatives; Situation of Human Rights in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia, U.N. Doc. A/47/666, S/24809 (17 November 1992), IHRLI Doc. No. 1488, 1495-1497.
*2669 Helsinki Watch, War Crimes in Bosnia-Hercegovina, Volume II (April 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 9389.
*2670 Austrian Mission, Submission of Information Pursuant to Paragraph 5 of Security Council Resolution 771 (1992) and Paragraph 1 of Security Council Resolution 780 (1992) (11 February 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 12324.
*2671 Id.
*2672 Id., IHRLI Doc. No. 12325.
*2673 Id.
*2674 Mary Battiata, «Former Prisoners Allege Wholesale Serb Atrocities», Washington Post, 6 October 1992, IHRLI Doc. No. 35544-35545.
*2675 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 251, IHRLI Doc. No. 57148-57150.
*2676 United Kingdom Defence Debriefing Team (DDT), «Summary No. 14 of Atrocity Information, CFN 405», IHRLI Doc. No. 43241.
*2677 Austrian Mission, Submission of Information Pursuant to Paragraph 5 of Security Council Resolution 771 (1992) and Paragraph 1 of Security Council Resolution 780 (1992) (11 February 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 12322.
*2678 Video Archive and Database, Scene Breakdown, Sudwest- 3, «War Victims: A Time to Mourn, Part 2», 12 October 1993, Tape No. 151, at 32.
*2679 Austrian Mission, Submission of Information Pursuant to Paragraph 5 of Security Council Resolution 771 (1992) and Paragraph 1 of Security Council Resolution 780 (1992) (11 February 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 12323.
*2680 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 261, IHRLI Doc. No. 57202-57206.
*2681 United Kingdom Defence Debriefing Team (DDT), «Special Report on Omarska Camp, Annex C to JSIO 2841-19», 25 March 1994, IHRLI Doc. No. 63795 (CFN 405, DOI 15 February 93, EDI May-August 92).
*2682 Roy Gutman, «Death Camp Horrors: Survivors Detail Serbian Atrocities», Newsday, 18 October 1992, IHRLI Doc. No. 35553-35568, at 35562-35563.
*2683 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 183, IHRLI Doc. No. 56903-56904.
*2684 ABC News Nightline, «Bosnia: The Hidden Horrors», Part Two, 11 November 1992, IHRLI Doc. No. 32147-32154, at 32151.
*2685 Roy Gutman, «Death Camp Horrors: Survivors Detail Serbian Atrocities», Newsday, 18 October 1992, IHRLI Doc. No. 35553-35568, at 35563.
*2686 Information Submitted by the Government of France, 5 November 1992, U.N. Doc. S/24768, IHRLI Doc. No. 1330.
*2687 Roy Gutman, «Death Camp Horrors; Survivors Detail Serbian Atrocities», Newsday, 18 October 1992, IHRLI Doc. No. 35553-35568, at 35563.
*2688 United Kingdom Defence Debriefing Team (DDT), «Special Report on Omarska Camp, Annex C to JSIO 2841-19», 25 March 1994, IHRLI Doc. No. 63796 (CFN 405 DOI 15 February 93, EDI May-August 92).
*2689 Id., IHRLI Doc. No. 63795.
*2690 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-3, IHRLI Doc. No. 56328-56331.
*2691 Roy Gutman, «Death Camp Horrors: Survivors Detail Serbian Atrocities», Newsday, 18 October 1992, IHRLI Doc. No. 35553-35568, at 35563. The subject did not state whether the prisoner ate the flesh.
*2692 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 204, IHRLI Doc. No. 56982-56993.
*2693 United Kingdom Defence Debriefing Team (DDT), «Special Report on Omarska Camp Annex C to JSIO 2841-19», 25 March 1993, IHRLI Doc. No. 63795 (CFN 405, DOI 15 February 93, EDI May-August 92).
*2694 Id.
*2695 Video Archive and Database, Scene Breakdown, Channel 4 TV, London, «True Stories: The Unforgiving», IHRLI Doc. No. 64057-64087, at 64074.
*2696 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 204, IHRLI Doc. No. 56982-56993.
*2697 Id.
*2698 Statement submitted by BiH Information Centre, London, IHRLI Doc. No. 2984A60-2984A64.
*2699 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 204, IHRLI Doc. No. 56982-56993.
*2700 Roy Gutman, «Death Camp Horrors: Survivors Detail Serbian Atrocities», Newsday, 18 October 1992, IHRLI Doc. No. 35553-35568, at 35561; Video Archive and Database, Scene Breakdown, «Dispatches: A Town Called Kozarac», IHRLI Doc. No. 52958-52988, at 52973.
*2701 Video Archive and Database, Scene Breakdown, «Dispatches: A Town Called Kozarac», IHRLI Doc. No. 52958-52988, at 52973.
*2702 Roy Gutman, «Death Camp Horrors: Survivors Detail Serbian Atrocities», Newsday, 18 October 1992, IHRLI Doc. No. 35553-35568, at 35562.
*2703 Statement submitted by BiH Information Centre, London, IHRLI Doc. No. 2984A60-2984A64.
*2704 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 241, IHRLI Doc. No. 57116-57119.
*2705 Roy Gutman, «Death Camp Horrors: Survivors Detail Serbian Atrocities», Newsday, 18 October 1992, IHRLI Doc. No. 35553-35568, at 35556. Subject was identified by initial in the report.
*2706 Statement submitted by BiH Information Centre, London, IHRLI Doc. No. 2984A60-2984A64.
*2707 United Kingdom Defence Debriefing Team (DDT), «Special Report on Omarska Camp, Annex C to JSIO 2841-19», 25 March 1994, IHRLI Doc. No. 63793 (CFN 1022, DOI 30 July 1993, EDI June 1992).
*2708 Video Archive and Database, Scene Breakdown, Sudwest- 3, «War Victims: A Time to Mourn, Part 2», 12 October 1993, Tape No. 151, at 17. Identification made by an identified male prisoner. Video Archive and Database, Scene Breakdown, «Dispatches: A Town Called Kozarac», IHRLI Doc. No. 52958-52988, at 52980; Video Archive and Database, Scene Breakdown, ITN Reports, IHRLI Doc. No. 52997-53012, at 53006.
*2709 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 246, IHRLI Doc. No. 57137-57139. Subject referred to the structure as the «white torture house» (Bijela kuca za mucenje).
*2710 Video Archive and Database, Scene Breakdown, «Dispatches: A Town Called Kozarac», IHRLI Doc. No. 52958-52988, at 52972. Subject stated that on the night after he was beaten, 9 prisoners were killed in the first room in the «white house». He stated that he did not recognize the persons who did the killing.
*2711 United Kingdom Defence Debriefing Team (DDT), «Special Report on Omarska Camp, Annex C to JSIO 2841-19», 25 March 1994, IHRLI Doc. No. 63793 (CFN 1022, DOI 30 July 1993, EDI June 1992).
*2712 Id., IHRLI Doc. No. 63797.
*2713 Canadian Mission, Second Submission pursuant to Security Council Resolution 771 (1992), U.N. Doc. S/26016 (30 June 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 29783-29785.
*2714 Video Archive and Database, Scene Breakdown, Sudwest- 3, «War Victims: A Time to Mourn, Part 2», 12 October 1993, Tape No. 151, at 18.
*2715 Id., at 20-21. Identification made by a woman judge who was held at the camp.
*2716 Id., at 21-24.
*2717 The subject commented that the number of persons called varied from two to three, to as many as 12.
*2718 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 231, IHRLI Doc. No. 57082-57085. Subject lists some of the persons reportedly killed in front of the «white house» in the manner described above.
*2719 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 165, IHRLI Doc. No. 56844-56849.
*2720 Statement Submitted by the BiH Information Centre, IHRLI Doc. No. 48739-47842.
*2721 Roy Gutman, «Death Camp Horrors: Survivors Detail Serbian Atrocities», Newsday, 18 October 1992, IHRLI Doc. No. 35553-35568, at 35555. Subject was identified in the report.
*2722 Id., at IHRLI Doc. No. 35553-35568. Subject was identified by initial in the report.
*2723 Video Archive and Database, Scene Breakdown, Sudwest- 3, «War Victims: A Time to Mourn, Part 2», 12 October 1993, Tape No. 151, at 38. Video Archive and Database, Scene Breakdown, Channel 4 TV, London, «True Stories: The Unforgiving», IHRLI Doc. No. 64057-64087, at 64071.
*2724 Video Archive and Database Scene Breakdown, ITN Reports, IHRLI Doc. No. 52997-53012, at 53007; Video Archive and Database Scene Breakdown, CNN Clips, IHRLI Doc. No. 53071-53092, at 53087 (same report as ITN above).
*2725 Subject reported that his captors had been suspicious because his passport showed that he had returned to Bosnia after the outbreak of the war.
*2726 Subject stated that the interrogators demanded to know who had guns. When his relative stated that he did not know, he was reportedly beaten to death with an iron bar.
*2727 United Kingdom Defence Debriefing Team (DDT), «Special Report on Omarska Camp, Annex C to JSIO 2841-10», 25 March 1994, IHRLI Doc. No. 63796 (CFN 776, DOI 27 April 93, EDI April 92).
*2728 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 232, IHRLI Doc. No. 57086-57089.
*2729 Croatian Centre for Collecting Documentation and Processing Data on the Liberation War, «Weekly Bulletin No. 6», 13 September 1993, 004 B-H-Prijedor, IHRLI Doc. No. 35755-35756. Subject identified the names of some of the dead, who he carried out of the «white house».
*2730 Republic of Croatia, Division of Information and Research, Ministry of Health of the Republic of Croatia, Testimony PRIJ-408, IHRLI Doc. No. 39578A-39581A.
*2731 Roy Gutman, «Death Camp Horrors: Survivors Detail Serbian Atrocities», Newsday, 18 October 1992, IHRLI Doc. No. 35553-35568, at 35561.
*2732 Statement submitted by BiH Information Centre, London, IHRLI Doc. No. 2984A60-2984A64.
*2733 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 202, IHRLI Doc. No. 56975-56978; Roy Gutman, «Death Camp Horrors: Survivors Detail Serbian Atrocities», Newsday, 18 October 1992, IHRLI Doc. No. 35553-35568, at 35563. This report appears to refer to the report cited above.
*2734 US Committee for Refugees, «Voices from the Whirlwind: Bosnian Refugees Testimonies», April-May 1993, IHRLI Doc. 21595-21627, at 21609-21617. Subject identified the guard responsible for this act.
*2735 Video Archive and Database, Scene Breakdown, «Dispatches: A Town Called Kozarac», IHRLI Doc. No. 52958-52988, at 52974.
*2736 Video Archive and Database, Scene Breakdown, Sudwest- 3, «War Victims: A Time to Mourn, Part 2», 12 October 1993, Tape No. 151, at 2-6.
*2737 United Kingdom Defence Debriefing Team (DDT), Special Report on Omarska Camp, Annex C to JSIO 2841-19«, 25 March 1994, IHRLI Doc. No. 63798 (CFN 1713, DOI 09 December 1993, EDI July 1992).
*2738 Id., IHRLI Doc. No. 63794.
*2739 Austrian Mission, Submission of Information Pursuant to Paragraph 5 of Security Council Resolution 771 (1992) and Paragraph 1 of Security Council Resolution 780 (1992) (11 February 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 12324.
*2740 Id., IHRLI Doc. No. 12326.
*2741 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 204, IHRLI Doc. No. 56982-56993.
*2742 Id.
*2743 See US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 232, IHRLI Doc. No. 57086-57089. Subject reportedly witnessed the castration incident in the garage building. He stated that the incident took place on 10 June 1992. He implicated three named individuals, and others in the killing. He also added that one individual was forced to eat half a dead pigeon and to drink motor oil and that the three victims were subsequently ordered to participate in same-sex sexual acts. The subject also reported that one of the victim's father was forced to witness the above occurrence and to eat the other half of the dead pigeon and to drink motor oil. US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-3, IHRLI Doc. No. 56328-56331, at 56330; US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-165, IHRLI Doc. No. 56844-56849. Subject stated that the incident occurred on an unidentified date in July 1992. He implicated a perpetrator, who had been a former coffee shop operator in Kozarac. He stated that the incident occurred in the high-bay area of the detention building. US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-170, IHRLI Doc. No. 56861-56862. Subject implicated a guard and his shift, who he said in mid-June 1992 ordered one victim, to accompany him to an area of the building used as a mine vehicle repair shop, to see his son killed. Subject stated that the victim was then returned to Room 15 where he eventually related the castration incident to subject and others. Subject stated that the prisoner forced to carry out the castration, was then tied up and left in the vehicle workshop for six days without food, where he was said to have lost his mind and was thereafter shot and killed. Statement submitted by BiH Information Centre, London, IHRLI Doc. No. 2984A17-2984A19. Subject stated generally that «the next day a young man came back to our room, he vomited a lot and told us that he was forced to bite off testicles of three other prisoners who died later that night». Statement Submitted by the BiH Information Centre, IHRLI Doc. No. 48739-48742. Subject stated that he witnessed the incident and that three named prisoners were involved. He implicated two alleged perpetrators by name. Source: BV, report containing an analysis of the castration incident, IHRLI Doc. No. 44047-44070; Video Archive and Database, Scene Breakdown, ABC News Nightline, «Bosnia: The Hidden Horrors, Part Two», 11 November 1992, IHRLI Doc. No. 32147-32154, at 32151- 32152. Subject interviewed stated that his son was castrated in his presence and that he was beaten. Mary Battiata, «Former Prisoners Allege Wholesale Serb Atrocities», Washington Post, IHRLI Doc. No. 35544-35547. Subject stated that two victims were taken to a basement room below the prisoners' quarters and savagely abused. He said that they were first hung from an auto- repair crane and severely beaten, then taken down and forced to perform sexual acts on each other, and were thereafter castrated. Republic of Croatia, Division of Information and Research, Ministry of Health of the Republic of Croatia, Testimony PRIJ- 408, IHRLI Doc. No. 39578A-39581A. Subject implicated three alleged perpetrator as responsible for the 18 June castration and stated that later, «[victim]» was forced to eat the sexual organs. Canadian Mission, Second Submission pursuant to Security Council resolution 771 (1992), U.N. Doc. S/26016 (30 June 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 29783-29785; Statement submitted by the BiH Information Centre, London, IHRLI Doc. No. 2984A59; US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-251, IHRLI Doc. No. 57148- 57150. Subject stated that he did not personally witness the incident. He stated that the incident occurred in the «garage», which was frequently used for beating and torturing prisoners (on the first floor of the former car maintenance shop). He added that 500 prisoners were kept on the second floor of the structure and that some were able to hear everything that happened through a hole in the wall. He stated that «[two redacted names] were forced to drink from a ditch on the floor old motor oil». He added that the two prisoners were ordered to bite off and swallow the testicles and that they had no choice and they both did it. Subject implicated six Serbs, including two named perpetrators. US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-108, IHRLI Doc. No. 56664-56666. In a very general description of a castration episode in mid-June 1992, subject stated that the event occurred in the «white house». Roy Gutman, «Death Camp Horrors: Survivors Detail Serbian Atrocities», Newsday, 18 October 1992, IHRLI Doc. No. 35553-35568, at 35564-35565. One subject reported that a named victim, a policeman, was ordered by an unidentified guard to strip naked in the hangar in front of parked dump trucks. «Do you remember the time you beat me up in the cafe?» the guard reportedly asked. A second Serb then reportedly found another Muslim prisoner against whose father he had a grudge and ordered him to lower his face into a channel cut in the concrete floor and drink old motor oil, and then bite off victim's testicles. According to the subject, three other men who had witnessed the castration were then killed by guards with metal rods and the man who carried out the castration returned to his room with his face blackened. The man was reportedly unable to speak for 24 hours. Video Archive and Database, Scene Breakdown, Channel 4 TV, London, «True Stories: The Unforgiving», IHRLI Doc. No. 64057- 64087, at 64074.
*2744 Austrian Mission, Submission of Information Pursuant to Paragraph 5 of Security Council Resolution 771 (1992) and Paragraph 1 of Security Council Resolution 780 (1992) (11 February 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 12324; Croatian Centre for Collecting Documentation and Processing Data on the Liberation War, «Weekly Bulletin No. 8», 27 September 1993, 004 B-H- Prijedor, IHRLI Doc. No. 40342.
*2745 Video Archive and Database, Scene Breakdown, ABC News Nightline, «Bosnia: The Hidden Horrors», Part Two, 11 November 1992, IHRLI Doc. No. 32147-32154 at 32151.
*2746 Canadian Mission, Second Submission pursuant to Security Council Resolution 771 (1992), U.N. Doc. S/26016 (30 June 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 29783-29785.
*2747 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 202, IHRLI Doc. No. 56975-56978.
*2748 Video Archive and Database, Scene Breakdown, Channel 4 TV, London, «True Stories: The Unforgiving», IHRLI Doc. No. 64057-64087, at 64071.
*2749 Austrian Mission, Submission of Information Pursuant to Paragraph 5 of Security Council Resolution 771 (1992) and Paragraph 1 of Security Council Resolution 780 (1992) (11 February 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 12326.
*2750 Roy Gutman, «Serbs' Death Camps: How the Guards Chose the Victims», A Witness to Genocide 60 (1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 24914-24918.
*2751 Statement submitted by the BiH Information Centre, London, IHRLI Doc. No. 2984A59.
*2752 Video Archive and Database, «Scene» Breakdown, «War Victims: A Time to Mourn, Part 2», Tape No. 151, at 9. Testimony by a female Croatian solicitor who was held at the camp.
*2753 US Human Rights Reports on BiH, US Department of State, IHRLI Doc. No. 9049. This report stated that according to former inmates, 10-15 prisoners were killed each day at Omarska between May and August, and prisoners were also subjected to torture and humiliation. Statement submitted by the BiH Information Centre, London, IHRLI Doc. No. 2984A65-2984A68. Subject stated that prisoners witnessed 10-20 dead bodies every day. US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-251, IHRLI Doc. No. 57148-57150.
*2754 Austrian Mission, Submission of Information Pursuant to Paragraph 5 of Security Council Resolution 771 (1992) and Paragraph 1 of Security Council Resolution 780 (1992) (11 February 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 12326.
*2755 Information Submitted by the Government of France, 5 November 1992, U.N. Doc. S/24768, IHRLI Doc. No. 1330.
*2756 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 204, IHRLI Doc. No. 56982-56993.
*2757 United Kingdom Defence Debriefing Team (DDT), «Special Report on Omarska Camp, Annex C to JSIO 2841-19», 25 March 1994, IHRLI Doc. No. 63797 (CFN 1027, DOI 30 July 93, EDI April 93).
*2758 Id., IHRLI Doc. No. 63798.
*2759 Canadian Mission, Second Submission pursuant to Security Council Resolution 771 (1992), U.N. Doc. S/26016 (30 June 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 29783-29785. The driver of the truck was identified by the subject and identified in the report by the initials «R.M.».
*2760 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-95, IHRLI Doc. No. 56622-56623.
*2761 United Kingdom Defence Debriefing Team (DDT), «Special Report on Omarska Camp, Annex C to JSIO 2841-19», 25 March 1994, IHRLI Doc. No. 63796 (CFN 405 DOI 15 February 93, EDI May-August 92).
*2762 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-14, IHRLI Doc. No. 56364-56366.
*2763 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 165, IHRLI Doc. No. 56844-56849.
*2764 Roy Gutman, «Death Camp Horrors: Survivors Detail Serbian Atrocities», Newsday, 18 October 1992, IHRLI Doc. No. 35553-35568. This estimate was based on eyewitness accounts of three former prisoners who spoke to the reporter.
*2765 Id. Three Bosnian journalists who were detained at Omarska reportedly arrived at an estimated death total of 1,200 or more.
*2766 Video Archive and Database, Scene Breakdown, ABC News Nightline, «Bosnia: The Hidden Horrors», Part Two, 11 November 1992, IHRLI Doc. No. 32147-32154. The Nightline reporter cited «an official US State Department report to the United Nations» that the number of prisoners killed at the Omarska camp could be as high as 1,400.
*2767 Handwritten Testimony by identified subject, submitted to the UN Commission of Experts by the Government of Canada, 18 October 1993, IHRLI Doc. No. 54453, at 54455.
*2768 Republic of Croatia, Division of Information and Research, Ministry of Health of the Republic of Croatia, Testimony PRIJ-408, IHRLI Doc. No. 39578A-39581A.
*2769 Canadian Mission, Second Submission pursuant to Security Council Resolution 771 (1992), U.N. Doc. S/26016 (30 June 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 29783-29785; Roy Gutman, «Death Camp Horrors: Survivors Detail Serbian Atrocities», Newsday, 18 October 1992, IHRLI Doc. No. 35553-35568. According to the report, ICRC officials said that at least 2,000 persons who went to Omarska were unaccounted for. US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-261, IHRLI Doc. No. 57202-57206; Austrian Mission, Submission of Information Pursuant to Paragraph 5 of Security Council Resolution 771 (1992) and Paragraph 1 of Security Council Resolution 780 (1992) (11 February 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 12325. An unidentified subject who was held at Omarska from 26 May to 6 August 1992, stated: «While I was in Omarska, about 2,000 people were killed, most of them shot».
*2770 Croatian Centre for Collecting Documentation and Processing Data on the Liberation War, «Weekly Bulletin No. 8», 27 September 1993, 006 B-H-Prijedor, IHRLI Doc. No. 40342-40343.
*2771 Defence Debriefing Team (DDT), «Special Report on Omarska Camp, Annex C to JSIO 2841-19, 25 March 1994», IHRLI Doc. No. 63796-63797 (CFN 59, DOI 23-25-5-6 July 93, EDI May-November 92); United Kingdom Defence Debriefing Team, «Debrief of CFN 059», 9 September 1993, IHRLI Doc. No. 40064, 40071.
*2772 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-97, IHRLI Doc. No. 56629-56631.
*2773 Roy Gutman, «Death Camp Horrors: Survivors Detail Serbian Atrocities», Newsday, 18 October 1992, IHRLI Doc. No. 35553-35568.
*2774 Statement submitted by BiH Information Centre, London, IHRLI Doc. No. 2984A60-2984A63.
*2775 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 232, IHRLI Doc. No. 57086-57089. Subject did not personally witness this alleged killing, but stated that his father-in-law observed the execution from the window of the building in which he was being held.
*2776 Defence Debriefing Team (DDT), «Special Report on Omarska Camp, Annex C to JSIO 2841-19», 25 March 1994, IHRLI Doc. No. 63796 (CFN 59, DOI 23-25-5-6 July 93, EDI May-November 92); US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-251, IHRLI Doc. No. 57148-57150. Subject stated that he heard from other prisoners at the camp that on 12 July 1992, on a Serbian national holiday, several prisoners were burned alive in a big fire in front of the «white house». United Kingdom Defence Debriefing Team, «Debrief of CFN 059», 9 September 1993, IHRLI Doc. No. 40064, 40071. Subject reported that on Petrodan at 10:00 p.m. he observed through a kitchen window, a prisoner being beaten and thrown into a fire made from the large rubber tires from the excavating trucks at the mine.
*2777 Video Archive and Database, Scene Breakdown, Sudwest- 3, «War Victims: A Time to Mourn, Part 2», 12 October 1993, Tape No. 151, at 35.
*2778 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 233, IHRLI Doc. No. 57090-57092.
*2779 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 213, IHRLI Doc. No. 57027-57029. Subject described an incident, some time in July 1992 (during his second month at Omarska), when an identified prisoner who had reportedly organized resistance to Serb control in BiH, arrived at the camp with a ring in his nose, attached to a chain. Subject stated that the prisoner was dragged into the camp on his hands and knees by a young Serb soldier (like a pig), and that he was naked from the waste up. The subject reported that an identified «Serb» at the camp, who knew the prisoner then helped toss the prisoner onto a burning stack of truck tires, was pulled off (after which he cursed his tormentors) , and was thrown back again until he died. US Committee for Refugees, «Voices from the Whirlwind: Bosnian Refugees Testimonies», April-May 1993, IHRLI Doc. 21595-21627, at 21609-21617. Subject stated that on an Orthodox Christian religious holiday, Djurdjevdan, the Serbs traditionally built bonfires, and on that night they built one and forced 200 prisoners to make a circle around it. They reportedly ordered the prisoners to reduce the size of the circle and ultimately threw someone into the fire. The subject added that the guards were drunk and were playing very loud music at the time. Defence Debriefing Team (DDT), «Special Report on Omarska Camp, Annex C to JSIO 2841-19», 25 March 1994, IHRLI Doc. No. 63797 (CFN 678, DOI 01 April 93, EDI March-September 92). Subject reported that on 12 July 1992 large earth-mover type tires were set on fire with gasoline and prisoners were forced to jump through the flames. Defence Debriefing Team (DDT), «Special Report on Omarska Camp, Annex C to JSIO 2841-19», 25 March 1994, IHRLI Doc. No. 63796 (CFN 59, DOI 23-25-5-6 July 93, EDI May-November 92). Subject reported that during the Serbian holiday of Petrodan in 1992, he observed through the window of the camp's kitchen, a prisoner being beaten and then thrown alive into a fire made from the large rubber tires from the excavating trucks previously used at the mine.
*2780 Subject estimated that this occurred at the end of July or beginning of August.
*2781 Canadian Mission, Second Submission pursuant to Security Council resolution 771 (1992), U.N. Doc. S/26016 (30 June 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 29783-29785.
*2782 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 108, IHRLI Doc. No. 56663-56666.
*2783 Austrian Mission, Submission of Information Pursuant to Paragraph 5 of Security Council Resolution 771 (1992) and Paragraph 1 of Security Council Resolution 780 (1992) (11 February 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 12327.
*2784 Roy Gutman, «Death Camp Horrors: Survivors Detail Serbian Atrocities», Newsday, 18 October 1992, IHRLI Doc. No. 35553-35568, at 35563.
*2785 Austrian Mission, Submission of Information Pursuant to Paragraph 5 of Security Council Resolution 771 (1992) and Paragraph 1 of Security Council Resolution 780 (1992) (11 February 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 12326.
*2786 Republic of Croatia, Division of Information and Research, Ministry of Health of the Republic of Croatia, Testimony PRIJ-408, IHRLI Doc. No. 39578A-39581A.
*2787 United Kingdom Defence Debriefing Team, «Debrief of CFN 059», 9 September 1993, IHRLI Doc. No. 40064, 40071. According to the debriefing report, the subject also reported on re-interview, the killing on 24-25 July 1992, of 180 persons in the glass-walled room, marked VIP.
*2788 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 241, IHRLI Doc. No. 57116-57119.
*2789 Roy Gutman, «Serbs' Death Camps: How the Guards Chose the Victims», A Witness to Genocide 60 (1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 24914-24918; US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 213, IHRLI Doc. No. 57027-57029. Subject stated that on one occasion he saw a pile of 13 corpses stacked in a pile; Written statement submitted by the Croatian Information Centre, Department for Collecting Documentation and Processing Data on the Liberation War, Zagreb, 3 December 1992, Statement luka6ea, Croat male (1950), (there is no IHRLI Number). Subject stated that in five days at the «white house» he and three other prisoners were forced to carry out two bodies each on average every day.
*2790 Canadian Mission, Second Submission Pursuant to Security Council Resolution 771 (1992), U.N. Doc. S/26016 (30 June 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 29783-29785.
*2791 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-71, IHRLI Doc. No. 56549-56551; Austrian Mission, Submission of Information Pursuant to Paragraph 5 of Security Council Resolution 771 (1992) and Paragraph 1 of Security Council Resolution 780 (1992) (11 February 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 12326; US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-204, IHRLI Doc. No. 56982-56993; Republic of Croatia, Division of Information and Research, Ministry of Health of the Republic of Croatia, Testimony PRIJ-408, IHRLI Doc. No. 39578A-39581A. Subject stated that following a mass killing of prisoners on 26 July 1992, at 4:00 a.m., he witnessed as bodies were being loaded onto two trucks and that the bodies were taken to the mines in Omarska and buried in mass graves. Canadian Mission, Second Submission Pursuant to Security Council Resolution 771 (1992), U.N. Doc. S/26016 (30 June 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 29783-29785. Subject identified one of the truck drivers who was listed in the report by the initials «R.N.»; US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-251, IHRLI Doc. No. 57148-57150. Subject stated that bodies were picked up daily from outside the «white house» at 4:00-5:00 a.m. by a truck.
*2792 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 232, IHRLI Doc. No. 57086-57089; Roy Gutman, «Death Camp Horrors: Survivors Detail Serbian Atrocities», Newsday, 18 October 1992, IHRLI Doc. No. 35553-35568, at 35555-35556. Subject was identified by initial in the report.
*2793 Canadian Mission, Second Submission Pursuant to Security Council Resolution 771 (1992) U.N. Doc. S/26016 (30 June 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 29783-29785.
*2794 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 231, IHRLI Doc. No. 57082-57085. Subject stated that the identified Serbian man had previously worked at the Omarska mine and that he used two identified prisoners to help him load the truck. The subject stated that some days, as few as two to three bodies were removed, while on other days there were as many as 16.
*2795 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 213, IHRLI Doc. No. 57027-57029.
*2796 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 204, IHRLI Doc. No. 56982-56993. This report also identified alleged drivers of those trucks.
*2797 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 232, IHRLI Doc. No. 57086-57089; Mary Battiata, «Former Prisoners Allege Wholesale Serb Atrocities», Washington Post, IHRLI Doc. No. 35544-35547. Subject stated that guards made the prisoners go out behind a small shed where there was a truck and a bulldozer and that they were made to load 26 disfigured, and in some cases decapitated, bodies.
*2798 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-95, IHRLI Doc. No. 56622-56623; US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-71, IHRLI Doc. No. 56549-56551. Subject reported that the trucks would carry about 40-50 bodies to the mine pit and dump them there.
*2799 US Committee for Refugees, «Voices from the Whirlwind: Bosnian Testimonies», April-May 1993, IHRLI Doc. No. 21591-21627, at 21609-21617.
*2800 Video Archive and Database, Scene Breakdown, ABC News Nightline, «Bosnia: The Hidden Horrors», Part Two, 11 November 1992, IHRLI Doc. No. 32147-32154; Republic of Croatia, Division of Information and Research, Ministry of Health of the Republic of Croatia, Testimony PRIJ-408, IHRLI Doc. No. 39578A-39581A; Canadian Mission, Second Submission Pursuant to Security Council Resolution 771 (1992) U.N. Doc. S/26016 (30 June 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 29783-29785. Subject believed that many men at the camp were buried in a mine pit towards Gradina. United Kingdom Defence Debriefing Team (DDT), «Special Report on Mass Graves, Annex E to JSIO 2841-19», 25 March 1994, IHRLI Doc. No. 63817. CFN 1013 reported that bodies from Omarska were dumped near the Gradina dam, possibly in the mine or in adjacent soil heaps. Id. CFN 161 reported that he witnessed 40-50 bodies being taken from the Omarska camp to a nearby mine. The source estimated that 2,000-3,000 bodies were place in the mine. Id. CFN 1130 reported that the dead at Omarska were buried in slap heaps at the mine within the camp. Id. CFN 973 reported that the victims of Omarska camp were buried in the mine at Tomasica. US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94-246, IHRLI Doc. No. 57137-57139. Subject stated that it was «common knowledge» at the camp that dead prisoners would be dumped in unused ore pits and buried with bulldozers. Austrian Mission, Submission of Information Pursuant to Paragraph 5 of Security Council Resolution 771 (1992) and Paragraph 1 of Security Council Resolution 780 (1992) (11 February 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 12326. One unidentified ex- prisoner referred to mass graves at Omarska: «Near the camp, mass graves were dug by excavators. It was no secret that they threw even sick people who were still alive into these graves». United Kingdom Defence Debriefing Team, «Debrief of CFN 059», 9 September 1993, IHRLI Doc. No. 40064, 40072. Subject, who reportedly had prior knowledge of the Omarska mine, stated that he believed that bodies were taken to mine shafts by truck or van and dumped there. He believed that the bodies were taken to the area of Gruben or Busnovi.
*2801 United Kingdom Defence Debriefing Team (DDT), «Special Report on Mass Graves, Annex E to JSIO 2841-19», 25 March 1994, IHRLI Doc. No. 63817 (CFN 973).
*2802 Austrian Mission, Submission of Information Pursuant to Paragraph 5 of Security Council Resolution 771 (1992) and Paragraph 1 of Security Council Resolution 780 (1992) (11 February 1993), IHRLI Doc. No. 12325.
*2803 US Department of State Declassified Materials, 94- 246, IHRLI Doc. No. 57148-57150.
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