During the aggression on BiH, about 200,000 military and civilian prisoners passed through the detainees’ camps. Close to 30,000 camp inmates were killed, while others were released after abuse.
During their stay in the camps, inmates were looking for ways to leave messages about the time when they were brought to the camp, the amount of time they spent in captivity etc.
In the Museum of crimes against humanity and genocide in Ferhadija Street in Sarajevo is exhibited the shirt of one of the former detainees from HVO camps in Herzegovina, who wrote all the names of inmates who were with him at the time on his shirt.
This inmate went through camps Gabela, Silos and Ljubuski. He managed to survive.
“People wanted to leave evidence of the torture they went through during their captivity in different ways. Some of them did not believe that they will survive,” said the curator Nermina Ljutic.
“Sometimes they were leaving messages on the sheet of paper, sometimes on the wall of the camp, and sometimes on a piece of clothing, like this shirt,” she added.
Records that the inmates made during their staying in camp were often used as evidence in the prosecution before the International Court in The Hague.
During the conflict in BiH, more than 650 camps were opened. The largest number of camps were located on the territory controlled by the army of then unconstitutional Republika Srpska.
(Source: nap.ba)
