Fikret Hodžić, a bodybuilder who was champion of Yugoslavia fifteen years in a row and the founder of the first bodybuilding club in Bosnia and Herzegovina, was killed on 9 July 1992 in Trnopolje. On that day Serb soldiers took away his family, and according to the testimony of his wife Suada, the shot was fired by a young man who had previously trained with Fikret. His remains were found in a mass grave in 2009, and he was buried seventeen years after his death.
Account of an event · Briševo · May 1992 – November 1992
In July 1992, forces of the Vojska Republike Srpske attacked Briševo, a village with a predominantly Croat population in the Prijedor municipality, and killed more than sixty civilians; sources give between 61 and 68 killed. Houses and the Catholic church were destroyed, many men were taken to camps, and the survivors were expelled. Only in 2023 did the Prosecutor's Office of BiH indict five former commanders and representatives of the Serb forces.
Personal testimony · Omarska · May 24, 1992 – August 26, 1992
Mehmed Alić, a 69-year-old farmer from Kamičani near Kozarac, survived the Trnopolje, Omarska and Manjača camps in 1992. In Omarska, guards forced him to find and bring his son Enver, whom they then beat in the hangar; he never saw him alive again. The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) convicted Duško Tadić by a final judgment for taking part in the beating of detainees in the hangar, including Enver Alić.
Personal testimony · Trnopolje · April 29, 1992 – September 30, 1992
In 1992, the Bosniak doctor Idriz Merdžanić from Prijedor treated wounded civilians during the attack by Serb forces on Kozarac, and then detainees of the Trnopolje camp, where he and the staff of the clinic secretly documented the injuries of detainees. He left the camp among the last, on 30 September 1992. Ten years later he testified before the ICTY in the case against Milomir Stakić, who was finally sentenced to 40 years in prison.