Keraterm, Prijedor, from Makeshift series.
The Chamber found that some of these murders amounted to extermination as a crime against humanity. For example: On or around 25 July 1992, police and members of the VRS aimed a machine-gun at the entrance of Room 3 in Keraterm camp where a large number of detainees were being held. During the night, some form of chemical gas was thrown into the room causing the detainees to panic and for some of them to try to exit. Spotlights were shone on the room and the soldiers and guards executed the detainees with automatic weapons as they exited, killing many of them. They then proceeded to shoot detainees inside the room, including some who were trying to hide. The soldiers and guards killed between 190 and 220 detainees that night. (source: ICTY Trial Judgement Summary for Ratko Mladić)
In the days preceding the massacre of Srebrenica, during a meeting with Momčilo Krajišnik, Mladić predicted what was going to happen, saying: “People are not little stones, or keys in someone's pocket, that can be moved from one place to another just like that... Therefore, we cannot precisely arrange for only Serbs to stay in one part of the country while removing others painlessly. I do not know how Mr Krajisnik and Mr Karadzic will explain that to the world. That is genocide.”
Ratko Mladić, the Butcher of Bosnia, had just been sentenced for life imprisonment, being found guilty of genocide.
