The anniversary of suffering of camp prisoners in the former concentration camp “Krings” in 1992, was marked in the organization of the Association of Camp Inmates of Sanski Most and the local community of Stari Majdan. The concentration camp “Krings” was formed at the beginning of the aggression against the Municipality of Sanski Most by the Serbian authorities. It is the hall of the eponymous company, through which, in the period from the 30th of May to the 27th of August 1992, passed about 700 detainees. Around 500 of them were men, while the rest were women, children and elderly people.
The formation of this camp was preceded by attack of Serbian forces on Stari Majdan, as well as the neighboring villages of Stara Rijeka and Brisevo. The horrible crime against innocent civilians took place, and most of the villagers were banished from their homes while large number of objects were destroyed or burned. Men, women and children from Stari Majdan were detained in the hall “Krings”, which was one kind of concentration camp for non-Serb population. In this concentration camp, after ethnic cleansing, were detained villagers from the right bank of Sana River, villages Aganovici and Karici, as well as parts of the Banjalucka Street and Stanicna Street.
Inmates were physically and mentally abused and starved there along with number of other human rights violations, from whose consequences two people died. It should be also mentioned that the camp was guarded by members of the active and reserve forces of the Serbian police in Sanski Most at that time, who allowed civilians and uniformed soldiers of the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) to brutally abuse detained prisoners. One of the detained inmates in the hall Krings was Nesib Okcic, who evoked memories of those terrible days on this occasion. From the consequences of brutal beating, inmate Munib Masic died in the hall Krings.
President of the Association of Camp Inmates of Sanski Most, Nihad Kljucanin, said that many crimes that were committed during the aggression have not been placed under the loupe of justice yet, and their commanders and perpetrators were never prosecuted. Delegations laid flowers at the memorial plaque which was built in front of the former hall “Krings’, and they paid tribute to all the innocent victims with a minute of silence an reciting Fatiha.
(Source: nap.ba)
