This week’s session of the Association of Independent Intellectuals “Circle 99” was dedicated to the theme “Justice for war camp detainees – victims of torture, victims of the system”, and an exhibition was opened as part of the session titled “The war camps in Bosnia and Herzegovina”.
President of the Association of War Camp Detainees in BiH Jasmin Mešković before the start of the session told reporters that the photographs speak about the crimes, torture, rape and murder of detainees.
He added that today’s exhibition is consisted of 88 photos, and in the coming period they will prepare 50 more.
“Our goal is to present the torture of war camp inmates throughout BiH,” said Mešković.
He noted that the association is an organization that represents the interests and attitudes, above all, all the victims when it comes to the adoption of laws on the rights of victims of torture in BiH for the detainees regardless of their religious, ethnic, gender, ethnic or other affiliation.
“Unfortunately, we have to prove who we are, what we are, point out to our rights, which we must fight for. I think that the institutions at the entity level and the state should once and for all understand the necessity of passing a law on the rights of victims of torture.
Not so much because of the people who have suffered torture, but primarily for the sake of younger generations who do not remember and for the sake of progress and security in BiH,” said Mešković.
During the session, part of the film “Death camps” by Avdo Huseinović was screened.
Journalist and writer, honorary citizen of Sarajevo, Florence Hartmann told reporters today that she joined the exhibition and the session of the “Circle 99” to talk about the war camps and to demand justice for prisoners, for all the victims in these camps.
“I remember in 1992, near Zvornik there were such places, and were never marked in the documents. I never could hear that these sites were mentioned in the trials in The Hague,” Hartmann said.
(Source: Fena/ photo klix)
