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Former camp detainees and members of the Association of Camp Inmates in Bosnia and Herzegovina are commemorating “Sanski Most Camp Victims’ Day” on Monday at the site of a mass grave where the Dabar River meets the Sana. The event honours victims of the wartime camp Betonirka, where detainees endured torture and inhumane treatment during the summer of 1992.
Following the main ceremony, organisers will visit the memorial at the former camp site, marking the tragic day when a group of Bosniak and Croat detainees were transported to the Manjača camp near Banja Luka. Nineteen of them never arrived.
On that scorching July day in 1992, around 60 inmates were loaded into an overcrowded military truck with a sealed tarpaulin. Due to the extreme heat and lack of air, 19 detainees suffocated during the journey. Their remains were later buried at the Dabar-Sana confluence.
In a statement, the Camp Inmates’ Association drew parallels between this crime and the use of gas vans by fascist forces in WWII-era Poland, describing the method and ideology as disturbingly similar.
“The verdicts of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the War Crimes Department of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina confirmed that this was a fascist policy—defeated in WWII, but not eradicated,” the statement read.
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