Massacre
According to prisoners' testimonies, on the night around Petrovdan 1992, guards of the Omarska camp set a pile of tires on fire, called prisoners out of the hangar, chased them around the fire and threw them into it. According to a protected witness before the Court of BiH, it happened on the night before Petrovdan, 11 July; according to other testimonies, on Petrovdan itself. The number of victims has not been established.
Omarska
Account of an event · July 11, 1992 – July 12, 1992
In the summer of 1992, on the night around the Orthodox holiday of Petrovdan, guards at the Omarska camp near Prijedor, according to detainees' testimonies, set a pile of tires on fire and called out prisoners by name from the hangar. Survivors testified that people were driven to run around the fire and thrown into the flames. The number of victims that night has never been established.