#prijedor

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Quest for Identity is a visual archive of thousands of personal belongings exhumed from mass graves in Bosnia and Herzegovina following the 1992-1995 war. Items are collected, identified and cataloged by the International Commission on Missing Persons and photographed by Ziyah Gafić. [read more] 

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Shell of destroyed, burnt-out mosque

Shell of destroyed, burnt-out mosque (no caps), a casualty of war in former Yugoslav republic. (Photo by Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images)

Shell of destroyed, burnt-out mosque (no caps), casualty of tri-ethnic (Muslim, Serb & Croat) civil war in former Yugoslav republic. (Photo by Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images) Robert Nickelsberg 

Date created: September 08, 1993

Muslim men at prayer (attended by 5) at Tale Mosque, 1 of city's oldest, hit by grenade in Aug. tri-ethnic civil war battle. (Photo by Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images)

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Otkud "Oluja " u Prijedoru?

Godišnjica ‘Oluje’ će biti sramno obilježena nad kostima ubijenih Prijedorčana Srpski Dan sjećanja na Oluju biće održan nad kostima ubijenih Bošnjaka i Hrvata Prijedora i prijedorske regije upravo zato što ova regija i jeste ogromno stratiše nesrba. Ovo je u konačnici potpuna inat-sprdnja s preko 3000 ubijenih od kojih su 102 djeteta. Ovo je kontinuitet negiranja zločina i genocida. Piše : Dragan…

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On May 31, 1992, the Bosnian Serb authorities in Prijedor issued an order through the local radio stations ordering the non-Serb population to mark their houses with white flags and to put a white armband around their sleeve when leaving their home. This was the beginning of the campaign of extermination of the non-Serb population in Prijedor, which resulted in the ethnic cleansing of 94% of the Bosnian Muslim and Bosnian Croat population from the Prijedor municipality. This was the first time since 1939 – when the Nazi decree required the Polish Jews to wear white armbands with the Star of David on their sleeve – that members of an ethnic or religious group were marked for extermination in such a manner. [x]

In Prijedor alone, 3 173 people - 256 women and 102 children - were killed during the war in Bosnia. Almost 31 000 people were detained in prison camps and 53 000 were forced to leave.

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Bosnia and Herzegovina

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A meteor streaks across the sky near the Monument to the Revolution at Kozara during the peak of the Perseid meteor shower in Prijedor, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

REUTERS/Dado Ruvic

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Today is an anniversary that is not even round. 27 years ago, on the night of 29/30 April, there was a takeover of power in the Bosnian region of Prijedor. For nearly a year, local radio and television have been already broadcasting Serbian nationalist programs over and over again, in which the Bosnian and Croatian residents of the city and surrounding villages were called mujahedin or ustasas. The seizure of power was long-planned. The school year in 1992 ended earlier, and the tutor of one of my interlocutors gave away only "See you in autumn with those who survive." This night begins the two-year period of ethnic cleansing of the region - estimated as the second after Srebrenica in terms of the number of victims of the operation of systematic displacement, looting, collecting and murdering civilians in today's Bosnia. 3,515 Bosnian Muslims and 186 Croats were killed. After the war, 96 mass graves were located in this region. Entire cities, like Kozarac, disappeared from the face of the earth. Most of the population covered by the systematic purge passed through the Omarska, Keraterm or Trnopolje camps. In the White House in Omarska people were killed without guns, only by beatings and torture. Every day, the guards were reading the names of the prisoners who had to report to the White House. According to the testimonies of witnesses, about one in a hundred of those who were called managed to survive. On St. Peter's day, the guards arranged a bonfire, and then they threw people into it, alive. Volunteers from the city came to help, there was a lot of singing and drinking. ICTY estimates that 170 people were murdered that evening. Before the war, nearly fifty thousand Muslims lived in Prijedor, accounting for more than half of the population. Currently, 29,000 inhabitants are a legally recognized minority, with 56 thousand citizens of the Republika Srpska of Bosnia and Herzegovina living in the Prijedor region. More than a thousand civilians are still missing today. The current owner of Omarska, an international concern Arcelor Mittal, did everything for two months to deny me entrance to the plant. After the fact, I learned that the White House does not even belong to them. In the longer version of the description of my documentary about Bosnia, there are a few sentences stating that the reasons for all of this seem to be much more universal than one might want. Resentment, nationalism, a distorted vision of history, a specific idea of national interest, paramilitary militia taking over a radio transmitter. I do not believe in the mission of photography, but if it inclines someone to reflect, and this to counteract - something important has been done. Remember Prijedor, about which you will never learn a sentence at a Polish school.

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Institut za istraživanje zločina protiv čovječnosti i međunarodnog prava Univerziteta u Sarajevu na svojoj web stranici sakupio je biblioteku online izdanja o genocidu nad Bošnjacima u širem kontekstu agresije na Republiku Bosnu i Hercegovinu [knjige, dokumenti, zbornici radova u pdf formatu].