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	Omarska - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Omarska (Serbian Cyrillic: Омарска) is a locality near Prijedor in northwestern Bosnia and Herzegovina.
		Omarska gained worldwide infamy as the location of a detention or Omarska concentration camp set up by the authorities of the Republika Srpska during the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia.
		Once the news of the camp spread internationally with the camp director claiming there were no women there, most of the women were let go, forced to walk 20km until they reached Prijedor, where their homes had been taken over and inhabited by Serbs.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Omarska (214 words)

	Omarska camp - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Omarska camp was a detention camp (also referred to as prison and concentration camp) in Omarska mining town near Prijedor in northern Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Bosnian War from 1992 to 1995.
		The objective of the camp was the permanent removal by force of non-Serb inhabitants from the territory of the planned Serbian state (Republika Srpska).
		After the war two mass graves were found near and related to killings at Omarska counting total of 773 bodies.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Omarska_camp (0 words)

	Bosnia Report - July-October 1996 - Middle Managers of Genocide
		Omarska was a concentration camp in northwestern Bosnia, run by Serbs and dedicated to the humiliation and murder of Bosnian Muslims and Croats.
		Omarska was a place where cruelty and mass murder had become a form of recreation.
		Omarska was not a hotel" - he manages his only smile, and it is not an agreeable one - "but Omarska was not a concentration camp".
	www.bosnia.org.uk /bosrep/juloct96/middle.cfm (0 words)

	Omarska Camp, Bosnia: Broken Promises of "Never Again" - Human Rights Magazine, Winter 2003
		The Omarska Camp trial before the Yugoslav Tribunal in The Hague established important precedent concerning the laws of armed conflict, the prosecution of gender-related crimes, the scope of persecution, and the development of the joint criminal enterprise theory of liability to hold individuals accountable for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
		Overnight, Omarska camp became a symbol of the horrors of the war in Bosnia and the ethnic hatred rife therein.
		Crimes committed in the Omarska camp in particular were the focus of this trial held against five accused who worked in or regularly visited the camp, which held well over 3,000 male detainees and some 36 female detainees.
	www.abanet.org /irr/hr/winter03/omarskacampbosnia.html (0 words)

	COURTTV.COM- TRIALS
		Omarska is considered to have been the most brutal of the camps.
		Omarska was a predominantly Serbian village in the Prejidor region where an open iron ore mine operated.
		Omarska was where those who were considered to be leaders or prominent citizens in the non-Serb community, or had actively resisted the Serb takeover, were sent.
	www.courttv.com /casefiles/warcrimes/reports/defendant.html (0 words)

	CNN.com - Serbs convicted of war crimes - November 2, 2001
		The Omarska trial is the first at the tribunal to deal with a "system of concentration-style camps" aimed at the creation of a greater Serb state.
		Omarska was the largest of three camps in the Prijedor region of northern Bosnia, along with Keraterm and Trnopolje.
		New arrivals at Omarska were reportedly beaten with batons and rifle butts and jammed into stiflingly hot rooms with no beds and poor sanitary facilities, prosecutors stated.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/11/02/bosnia.tribunal (0 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Shame of camp Omarska
		This is lunchtime in the Omarska camp or 'investigation centre' operated by the Bosnian-Serbian police for Muslim captives, near Prijedor in north-eastern Bosnia.
		The unexpected and unexplained access to Omarska was part of an invitation by the Bosnian-Serbian president, Radovan Karazdic, a challenge to the Guardian and Independent Television News to inspect 'whatever you wish to see' in response to the concentration camp allegations.
		Though this may be true of Omarska, it is generally untrue, since a camp we visited on the outskirts of Sarajevo has been established solely for the purpose of swapping Muslim captives for Serbs.
	www.guardian.co.uk /yugo/article/0,2763,711362,00.html (0 words)

	Virtual Security.Net - Atrocity, memory, photography: imaging the concentration camps of Bosnia - the case of ITN ...
		In particular, because LM asserts that Omarska and Trnopolje were not concentration camps, this article examines what is involved in the concept of a concentration camp, as well as the nature of the Nazi’s concentration camp system and the resultant implications for the memory of the Holocaust and our understanding of contemporary atrocity.
		Omarska and Keraterm “were places where killings, torture, and brutal interrogations were carried out” as part of the effort to eliminate and remove the non-Serb leadership.
		At its most grotesque, this argument turns the world upside down and proclaims that in Omarska and Trnopolje, ITN “visited two surprisingly casual and humane locations.”[113] Given such statements, it is not surprising that those promoting the Serbian cause have eagerly embraced the arguments of Deichmann and Hume.
	www.virtual-security.net /attrocity/atrocity2.htm (0 words)

	Mittal buys Serb death camp site- The Times of India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Omarska was one of the concentration camps set up by the Serbs in Bosnia for the internment, torture and mass murder of Muslims and Croats.
		Sources close to the tycoon told TOI that he was obviously aware of Omarska's history but it is difficult to say how much he was aware of the precise sensitivities of people in the area.
		Omarska's history of hate, documented by judges at the war crimes tribunal in The Hague, says that hundreds were murdered there in the over-long summer of 1992 by the systematic use of torture, beatings, slitting of throats and, one night, by incineration on piles of burning tyres.
	timesofindia.indiatimes.com /articleshow/msid-944392,prtpage-1.cms (0 words)

	Bosnian Institute News: Sale of Omarska
		Camp Omarska, where hundreds died, was established on the site of an iron ore mine, one of three in a complex in which Mr Mittal has a controlling share in a joint venture with the local Bosnian Serb authorities.
		In three separate petitions and letters to Mr Mittal, survivors this week pleaded for the premises in which prisoners were killed to be preserved and dedicated for commemoration of the dead, and also for the historical record and in pursuit of reconciliation in Bosnia.
		However, the horrors of Omarska are well documented, not least by judges' rulings in successive trials at the war crimes tribunal in The Hague.
	www.bosnia.org.uk /news/news_body.cfm?newsid=1976 (0 words)

	Online Petition - THE OMARSKA MEMORIAL DEBATE - HeadGroups (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Of course that they and the families of those who lost their lives there should be the first and the foremost to be consulted on the memorial.
		I think it is shameful and outrageous that the survivors and families of victims of Omarska are not being involved in the process of deciding on a memorial.
		Should the new owners choose, they could be in a position -- as significant players in the economy of the region -- to exercise their influence for the proper recognition of crimes committed at other locations, beginning with nearby Keraterm and Trnopolje.
	headgroups.com /display/om/online+petition (0 words)

	Human Rights Brief - Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law - Washington College of Law
		case concentrated largely on atrocities committed in the Omarska camp during the summer of 1992, and the role of the accused in the camp's operations.
		The Omarska camp was a so-called "collection centre" in the north-east of Bosnia-Herzegovina, where thousands of detainees (mostly Muslims and Croats) were interrogated purportedly in an attempt to identify who was a suspect of and/or collaborator with the non-Serb opposition.
		With respect to Kvočka, a Serb police officer, the court found that he served in the Omarska camp in a position which the court found to be the functional equivalent of a deputy commander with some degree of authority over the guards.
	www.wcl.american.edu /hrbrief/09/3tribunals.cfm (0 words)

	IslamicAwakening.Com: 'We Can't Forget'
		Sabahudin's father survived Omarska, but his brother Armin was among the first to die there, his name called from among 156 men packed into the "garage", a space just five metres by six.
		When she emerged alive from Omarska, she explains, she found a former typist from the bench called Ankica living in her flat, and was invited in for coffee.
		The security guards from the all-Serbian village of Omarska signal that it is time for the commemorative procession to leave the camp.
	islamicawakening.com /viewnews.php?newsID=2711 (0 words)

	BBC News \| EUROPE \| Omarska: A vision of hell
		About 6,000 Muslims and Croats were held in Omarska, a former mining complex 20 kilometres (12 miles) from the Bosnian town of Prijedor.
		At Omarska - and smaller camps at Keraterm and Trnopolje, also in northern Bosnia - new arrivals were reportedly beaten with batons and rifle butts, and crammed into stiflingly hot rooms with no beds and meagre sanitary facilities.
		Although most prisoners were male, several dozen women were kept at Omarska and were forced to mop floors littered with hair and teeth, and stained with blood.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/1634250.stm (0 words)

	Bad men, dead men at Bosnia's Omarska / The new Auschwitz no one had imaged (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Omarska is the horror that was never supposed to happen again after Auschwitz.
		If the late Slobodan Milosevic was the mastermind of the Bosnian war, Radovan Karadzic was it's premier architect, organizing such camps as Omarska (which he would mockingly label an "investigation center" when reporters came snooping about) to ethnically cleanse a region of its non-Serbs.
		The Omarska camp operated for about three months, in which time, the U.S. State Department estimates, up to 5,000 people were killed.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/04/02/ING1FHVMUJ1.DTL (0 words)

	April 5, 1993 Vreme News Digest Agency No 80
		The commanders of the Omarska and Trnopolje camps, Zeljko Kocka and Slobodan Kuruzovic are accused of organizing the killing of prisoners, and one witness claims that Kocka even did the killing himself.
		He thinks that the left opencut of the Omarska mine and the opencuts of Tomasica, Glinokop and Pasinc, are mass graves.
		He went on to say that in that same camp prisoners were beaten with sand bags, metal bars and wooden rods cut in two at the top so as to tear of a piece of flesh with every blow.
	www.scc.rutgers.edu /serbian_digest/80/t80-7.htm (0 words)

	Annex VIII : Prison camps (part 6/10)
		One woman reported that she was held at the camp for one evening and was raped by a man who she identified as Keraterm's commander.
		Once at Omarska, they found that the camp was full and the prisoners were thereafter transported and imprisoned at the Keraterm camp.
		While prisoners were transferred to Trnopolje from the Omarska and Keraterm concentration camps throughout the summer of 1992, their numbers increased in the first week of August when those camps were preparing to close operation.
	www.ess.uwe.ac.uk /comexpert/ANX/VIII-06.htm (0 words)

	Annex VIII : Prison camps (part 5/10)
		When Marshall visited Omarska's cafeteria, she commented that the prisoners were silent and that the only voices heard where those of guards ordering the men to eat faster and leave.
		Under the Prijedor MUP's control was reportedly the Prijedor Civilian Police, the Omarska Civilian Police, the Omarska Camp, the Trnopolje camp, the Keraterm camp, the «war courts», and the MUP inspectors.
		It was generally reported that Omarska's prisoners were fed one meal per day and that the meal generally consisted of some bread and a bowl of soup or other substance.
	www.ess.uwe.ac.uk /comexpert/ANX/VIII-05.htm (0 words)

	USTASE2: Re: What was Omarska? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Omarska was a place where cruelty and mass murder had become a
		Omarska itself, and had worked at the mine.
		Omarska was administered, the authorities insisted that there was camp,
	www.suc.org /~kosta/tar/polluters/1/0179.html (0 words)

	Salon.com News \| In pursuit of reconciliation
		But their pleas present Mittal with a potential challenge: His partners in a joint venture to restart iron ore extraction at Omarska and other mines are the Bosnian Serb authorities, whom Mittal -- by admission of his own staff -- does not want to antagonize.
		In three separate petitions and letters to Mittal, survivors this week pleaded for the premises in which prisoners were killed to be preserved and dedicated for commemoration of the dead, and also for the historical record and in pursuit of reconciliation in Bosnia.
		They should at least mark Omarska as the place where thousands suffered and hundreds died." Garibovic said: "The ball is now in Mittal's court.
	archive.salon.com /news/feature/2004/12/02/bosnia_camp/print.html (0 words)

	Killing Days - Preface
		But it is doubtful that many of us have as yet taken the full measure of the damage which these accursed camps and their catalogue of horrors have done to the integrity of our European human rights and humanitarian law traditions.
		Kemal Pervanic’s memoir of his time as an inmate of Omarska and Manjaca is a vital and compelling act of resistance.
		With startling frankness, he told me that in his darkest moments - when he thinks of those who destroyed his home and his world and the lives of so many relatives and friends - he sometimes imagines what it would be like to murder them in turn.
	www.prijedor.ba /english/preface.html (0 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Europe \| Ex-foes make peace at Omarska
		Like hundreds of other Muslims and Croats from the area around the town of Prijedor he was rounded up by Bosnian Serb soldiers at the start of the war and sent to the Omarska camp.
		One worker at the iron mine told me it was not an appropriate place for a memorial because it was a working environment.
		But the iron ore mine at Omarska is working again, recently bought by the world's biggest steel company Mittal Steel.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/4449996.stm (0 words)

	Indictments Against Meakic,...Part 1
		In this February 13, 1995 indictment, Zeljko Meakic, the head of the camp, and 18 individuals acting under his authority are charged with violations of the laws and customs of war and crimes against humanity.
		Zeljko MEAKIC also known as (hereinafter a/k/a) Mejakic, a/k/a Meagic, was in charge of Omarska camp beginning in late June, 1992, and was in a position of superior authority to everyone else in the camp.
		All of the prisoners at the Omarska camp, and the Bosnian Muslims and Croats of the opstina of Prijedor referred to in this indictment were, at all relevant times, persons protected by the Geneva Conventions of 1949.
	www.haverford.edu /relg/sells/indictments/meakic1.html (0 words)

	Balkan Repository Project - War Stories, Roy Gutman and Western perceptions of the Balkans War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Since the Serb authorities had refused to permit him to visit Omarska he had asked the publicity officer of the Bosnian Serb army in Banja Luka to procure a response of Omarska prison camp commander, Zeljko Mejahic, to the accusation that he had raped Jadranka.
		At the end of this eyewitness account she underlines the impression that she was raped by only one person in Omarska: She states that the camp commander - Zeljko Mejahic, whose name she never mentions in the lSHR-brochure - had asked her five days after these incidents whether she had received any maltreatment.
		She is to put forward her charges against the Omarska camp commander and extend the lawsuit to Karadzic and Milosevic.
	www.balkan-archive.org.yu /politics/media_watch/html/novo.html (0 words)

	Indictment - Meakic and Others
		26.1. Between early June and 3 August 1992, (name deleted), a guard at the Omarska camp, forced "F" from the room where she was sleeping, took her to another room on the first floor of the administration building in the Omarska camp and subjected her to forcible sexual intercourse.
		Sometime between early June and 3 August 1992, "F" was taken to the Separcija building at the entrance to the Omarska camp and placed in a room where (name deleted) subjected "F" to forcible sexual intercourse.
		As the victims were removed in a wheelbarrow, one of the Serbs discharged the contents of a fire extinguisher into the mouth of one of the victims.
	www.un.org /icty/indictment/english/mea-ai010718e.htm (0 words)

	Killing Days - Synopsis
		It describes a frightening and often bizarre series of events which unfolds as former friends and colleagues swagger among us - suddenly all-powerful, armed and volatile, as they begin taking away intellectuals, professionals and other local public figures to be killed.
		At first, nobody could quite comprehend the brutality of conditions in the camp; but we soon realised that the killings would not stop and there were no signs that we would be released.
		After the first foreign journalists visited Omarska and wrote about our plight, I was among 1,350 people transferred to the camp at Manjaca, where prisoners were at last registered with the International Red Cross.
	www.prijedor.ba /english/synopsis.html (0 words)

	Lies the London Guardian told me...or, The Return of Villainy
		An RTS crew followed ITN as they inspected a detention center in the town of Omarska and a refugee center at Trnopolje (pronounced turn-OP-ul-yay.), where the supposed death camp footage was shot.
		If Vulliamy is talking about Trnopolje and falsely labeling it Omarska (as the Guardian picture did) then we need not consult 'Judgment!'; we need only look at the two pictures on this page, the one from the Guardian and the one from the RTS footage.
		Notice: nobody but Fikret Alic is skinny; the Bosnian Serbs say he had childhood TB, but whatever the causes of his skinny appearance, it is rather hard to believe he was the sole target of a starvation campaign.
	emperors-clothes.com /villainy.htm (0 words)

	Box of Tricks Theatre Company
		Through a blend of dark humour and compelling insight, Beyond Omarska explores the devastating effects of war and how the political impinges on the personal.
		Beyond Omarska (then The Blue River) was twice winner of Flip the Script at the Contact Theatre, Manchester, and was shortlisted for the Kings Cross Award and the BBC's Alfred Bradley Bursary Award, 2004.
		The performances of Beyond Omarska on Tuesday 20th and Wednesday 21st June were benefits for War Child.
	www.boxoftrickstheatre.co.uk /omarska.html (0 words)

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