On May 31st, all Bosniaks in #Prijedor were ordered to mark their houses with white flags and to wear a white armbands in public by Serb authorities.
Over 3,000 killed and the internment of 30,000 people in concentration camps and mass expulsions of over 50,000 people.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
The ICTY concluded that the takeover of Prijedor by the Serb politicians was an illegal coup d'état, which was planned and coordinated a long time in advance with the ultimate aim of creating a pure Serb municipality.
The announcements broadcast on the radio, from 31 May 1992 onward, obliged non-Serbs to hang white bed sheets outside their homes and wear white armbands as a demonstration of their loyalty to the Serb authorities.
During and after Kozarac, Hambarine and Briševo massacres, Serb authorities set up concentration camps and determined who should be responsible for the running of those camps.
Massacres were common at the camps. A machine gun started firing. The next morning there was blood on the walls in Room 3. There were piles of bodies and wounded people. The guards opened the door and said: "Look at these foolish dirty Muslims – they have killed each other".
The room behind the restaurant was known as "Mujo’s Room.” The dimensions of this room were about 12 by 15 metres and the average number of people detained there was 500, most of whom were Bosniaks. Blood covered the walls.
Female detainees were routinely raped and forced to clean blood soaked rooms and facilities. Many reported repeated incidents of rape on a daily basis.
In 2013, the International Commission on Missing Persons uncovered one of the biggest mass graves in the #Prijedor municipality at the Tomašica mines with more than 600 bodies. The Tomasica grave covers more than 5,000 sq m (53,820 sq ft) and is 10m (about 30 ft) deep.
Last year, Serbs in #Prijedor celebrated the genocide and Ratko Mladić on the occasion of the unconstitutional 'Day of RS' - the day when the genocidal campaign officially began in 1992. These are our fine neighbors.
They were like you and me. Human beings with people who loved them.
At the #Kevljani mass grave in 2004 forensic experts discovered a total of 456 innocent victims from the municipality of Prijedor. Many of the victims were part of the educated elite in the region. #BosnianGenocide
An ex-prisoner at #Omarska concentration camp recounts his experiences.
A survivor of Omarska remembers: "It's a different kind of screaming from a normal beating, the screaming of a man who knows that it's not going to stop, and it's only a matter of minutes before you depart this life. You can't reproduce it."
You can watch a full documentary on the Prijedor genocide and concentration camps here:
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Srebrenica is a town in eastern Bosnia and was a UN "safe area" in the 1990s upon which the Serb Army forces imposed a siege and famine that, 28 years ago, culminated in the worst act of mass murder in Europe since World War II. This is a thread on the #SrebrenicaGenocide.
"You are now under the protection of the UN forces. I will never abandon you." -- UN General Philippe Morillon, speaking to Srebrenica Bosnians in 1993.
Despite #Srebrenica's status as a UN "safe area" and the UN's disarming of the Srebrenica inhabitants--a policy which would help facilitate the genocidal killing of over 8,000 civilians--UN, at no point, fired a single bullet to protect the people of Srebrenica.
As a symbolic act to mark the 31st anniversary of the genocide committed against Bosniak civilians in the eastern town of #Visegrad, 3,000 roses were cast into the Drina River from the Mehmed-Pasa Sokolovic Bridge to pay tribute to the 3,000 victims.
Međeđa (Višegrad) 1993 - in this video you can hear Serb soldiers joking about burning down a mosque. “This one is a war criminal!” one of them says.
The mosque was indeed destroyed. Along with thousands of others during the genocide.
Visegrad is the municipality with the largest number of murdered women and children.
One of the key commanders during the initial 🇷🇺 invasion of 🇺🇦 in 2014, Igor Girkin, previously served as a 🇷🇺“volunteer” during the Bosnian War (center below) and participated in the Visegrad Massacre, one of the worst episodes of the #BosnianGenocide.
In Višegrad, Bosniaks made up 64% of the population in 1991. Today they make up 9%. The extremist Serb Chetnik movement is responsible for mass rape and genocide in #Visegrad in 1940s and 90s. Now, they are emboldened by Dodik and the West’s appeasement of Vucic.
Today in #Visegrad, Eastern Bosnia, where Russian volunteers helped Serbs in the genocidal campaign against Bosniaks in 1992.
Asked about recent efforts to turn a former Croat concentration camp in Herzegovina into a museum for the HVO milita, @Dragan_Covic says he is "sorry such...places were necessary [!], that some people had to be [!!] denied their freedom."
“I was tortured so much; they made an animal out of me. There was psychological [torture], hunger, thirst, non-stop labour, working on the front line amid shootings; you didn’t feel like you were going to survive & that there would ever be an end to this.”
@josattler, the EU ambassador and special representatives to Bosnia, calls Dragan Covic the “Champion of European values.”
Meet Srđan Golubović aka DJ MAX. #DJMAX is a music DJ. He plays music all over Serbia and the Montenegrin coast. Here’s a photo of DJ MAX kicking a defenseless Tifa Šabanović before murdering her along with other civilians in #Bijeljina.
20,000 rabid #Partizan fans are chanting racist slogans at Real Madrid’s Bosnian player @DzMusa at the moment in Belgrade. Numerous banners hung as well, reminiscent of #Serbia’s vile fascism and genocide.
@FIBA will likely do nothing. Racism and debauchery is rewarded.