During the war, a former elementary school in Kamenica, near Drvar, served as a site for the detention, torture, and killing of Bosniaks and Croats from various towns in the Krajina region and elsewhere in Bosnia and Herzegovina. A visit to this site by members of the Sanski Most Association of Former Camp Detainees provided an opportunity to pay tribute to the victims and recall the scale of the suffering that took place in the camp.
According to data presented by the Sanski Most Association of Former Camp Detainees, hundreds of civilians and prisoners of war passed through the Kamenica camp. These included Bosniaks and Croats from the area of the present-day Una-Sana Canton, as well as from Livno, Kupres, Bugojno, Gornji Vakuf, and other locations.
Detainees were held in what were once school classrooms, where they were subjected to torture, beatings, humiliation, inhumane treatment, and forced labor. The group included men, women, children, and entire families; according to the Association, approximately 50 people were killed in the camp.
A particularly harrowing chapter in the history of this camp concerns the Golubnjača pit, where the bodies of 19 murdered detainees were discovered in 2001. The pit is located near Drvar and is approximately 40 meters deep. According to available information, the bodies of some of those killed were also buried in the courtyard of the former school following their execution. During their visit, a delegation from the Sanski Most Association of Former Camp Detainees toured the former detention camp and the site of the Golubnjača pit, where they paid tribute to the murdered detainees by laying flowers.
As part of the visit, members of the Association also visited the central memorial in Bosanski Petrovac, where they paid tribute to the victims of war crimes in this municipality by reciting the Fatiha and laying flowers.
For crimes committed at the Kamenica detention camp, the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina handed down a final verdict sentencing Dragan Rodić to eight years in prison for crimes against humanity and war crimes against prisoners of war, while Ratko Dronjak was sentenced to 15 years in prison, Fena writes.
