Takeover of power in Prijedor and the removal of Nusreta Sivac from her post as judge

Personal testimony · April 1992 – August 1992

Nusreta Sivac: a judge from Prijedor who survived Omarska and testified in The Hague

Nusreta Sivac, a judge of the Municipal Court in Prijedor, was removed from her job in the spring of 1992 and on 9 June 1992 was taken to the Omarska camp, where she was one of 37 women detained. After surviving, she gathered testimonies together with her former colleague Jadranka Cigelj and in 1995 helped prepare the first ICTY indictments in The Hague. She testified several times before the Tribunal, including in the trial of Radovan Karadžić.