Thread by @BosnianHistory

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.

3,173 civilians killed: Mostly Muslim, 206 Catholic, 102 children & 256 women.

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: