Omarska

Biography · August 5, 1992

Dr. Eso Sadiković – a Prijedor physician killed after the Omarska camp

Dr. Esad Eso Sadiković, a respected Prijedor otorhinolaryngologist and United Nations expert, was arrested after the SDS seized power in Prijedor in 1992 and was interned in the Omarska camp, where he helped wounded and exhausted detainees. On the night of 5–6 August 1992 he was taken out of the camp and killed above the Hrastova glavica pit. His remains were buried in Prijedor on 29 July 2007. His fate is part of the wider killing of Prijedor physicians and intellectuals.