Genocidni akti nad Bošnjacima u logorima i drugim mjestima zatočenja
Genocidal act against Bosniaks ain camps and other places of detention

Summary/Abstract: During the aggression against Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992-1995) and pursuant to the ruling of a respectable court, the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia in The Hague (19 April 2004), an act of genocide was committed in this country. The most serious form of crime against humanity, with all its five elements pursuant to the Convention on Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948, Article II), was committed against the Bosniak community, with the intention of its destruction, in part or in full. In order to elaborate the genocide against Bosniaks, this crime can be linked to Serb-controlled detention camps in BiH, where genocidal acts were committed. According to data available, there were some 600 detention camps under Serb control, and some 200,000 detainees, mainly Bosniaks, were at some point detained in those camps. Killings of Bosniaks as members of a groups were committed as part of a plan in those camps, they were systematic, organised and massive, involving a considerable number of perpetrators, on the basis of a model prepared in advance. This contributed to the killing of a large number of Bosniaks – some 40,000 – in such camps. Infliction of serious physical and mental injuries on members of a group, Bosniaks, was also a systemic occurrence in the camps. Several acts may be listed as genocidal acts, primarily rape and different forms of torture. Victims were mainly girls and young women, often quite young girls of fourteen or less, and even women older than 60. Many of them suffered repeated brutal rape and were killed at the end. Deliberate infliction of living conditions leading to physical destruction of a group, in part or as a whole, is an act of genocide largely executed in camps and illustrated by numerous examples, particularly in relation to accommodation conditions, hygiene, food, etc. Housing included storage hangars, concrete bunkers, tunnels, warehouses, different warehousing and storage facilities, mines, old mine shafts, garages, basements, cattle farms, etc. The premises used were small; floors were used as beds, with no fresh air, and with immense indoor heat in the summer, etc. Introduction of measures to prevent births among thee group is a genocidal act evident in the camps in BiH. After being raped, Bosniak women were not allowed to abort the babies, i.e. they were kept in camps until very late into the pregnancy, and were later expelled with the intention of being forced to give birth to unwanted children. After such events and after rapes, many women never married, and many of them also never returned to their families, thus destroying them forever. Forced movement of children from one group to another is also a genocidal act which can be partly related to camps. After being separated from their parents in the camps, many children re moved to another group, which marred their development permanently.

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