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City: Vogosca

17 July 2013

Ex-Prisoners Recall Horrors of Bosnia’s Bunker Camp

At the trial for wartime crimes at detention camps in Vogosca near Sarajevo, witnesses said they experienced terrible beatings and feared for their lives while imprisoned in the Bunker camp.
10 July 2013

Sarajevo Camp Warden ‘Beat Up Bosniak Prisoners’

Witnesses at the war crimes trial of former warden Branko Vlaco over alleged abuse at Bosnian Serb detention camps in Vogosca near Sarajevo said he violently assaulted prisoners.
26 June 2013

Slapped by Branko Vlaco

State Prosecution witnesses say, at the trial for crimes in Vogosca, that they saw indictee Branko Vlaco, a former Manager of the “Planjina kuca” detention camp, hitting a detainee.

18 June 2013

UN Condemns Bosnia Over Wartime Missing

The UN’s Human Rights Committee made its first-ever decision censuring Bosnia and Herzegovina for failing to help find five people who went missing near Sarajevo in wartime.
12 June 2013

Prisoner Recalls Violence at Serb Prison Camp

At the trial for wartime crimes at Serb-run detention camps in Vogosca near Sarajevo, a former prisoner recalled how he was beaten, abused and used as a human shield.
10 June 2013

Bosnian Prosecutor Urges Jail for Sarajevo Police Chief

The Bosnian state prosecutor said that former Serb police chief Goran Saric should be found guilty of war crimes in the Sarajevo settlement of Nahorevo in 1992.
5 June 2013

Inhumane Conditions in “Bunker”

Testifying at the trial for crimes in the Vogosca area, former “Bunker” detention camp inmates testify about difficult conditions in that facility and forcing detainees to perform hard labour at other locations.

20 May 2013

Defendant Released a Group of Imprisoned Neighbours

At the trial for the crime committed in Sarajevo, the witness for the Prosecution said that defendant Goran Saric, whom some called chief, let a group of men from Jagomir go to Sarajevo.
8 May 2013

Bosnians Feared Nocturnal Beatings at Vogosca Jail

At the trial for wartime crimes at detention camps in Vogosca near Sarajevo, a witness said that Serb soldiers arrived at night to abuse and humiliate prisoners.
24 April 2013

Bosnian Serb ‘Used Prisoners as Human Shields’

At the trial for wartime crimes at detention camps in Vogosca near Sarajevo, a witness said defendant Branko Vlaco decided which prisoners did hard labour or served as human shields.
17 April 2013

Vogosca Witness Recalls Use as Human Shield

At the trial for crimes committed in Vogosca, a witness for the prosecution said he was held captive in Planjina Kuca in 1992, where he regularly saw Branko Vlaco.

12 April 2013

Witness Recounts How He Survived Human Shield

At the trial for crimes committed in Vogosca, witnesses for the prosecution confirmed that during imprisonment in Planjina kuca they heard the facility’s warden was Branko Vlaco, whom they did not see or know from before.

8 April 2013

‘Bunker’ Camp Prisoner Recalls Beatings and Sexual Abuse

Testifying at the trial of former Bosnian Serb detention centre commander Branko Vlaco, a witness recalled how prisoners were abused while locked up in the Bunker camp in Vogosca.

26 March 2013

Detention in Jagomir

At the trial for war crimes committed in Sarajevo, a BiH Prosecution witness testified that in 1992 he was singled out from a group of men and taken to Jagomir in Vogosca. 

11 March 2013

Crisis Committees’ Autocracy

As the trial of Radovan Karadzic continues, former Assistant Justice Minister of Republika Srpska Slobodan Avlijas appears as Defence witness and says that the Serb crisis committees frequently disrespected the indictee’s instructions about the humane treatment of “prisoners of war”.