Anto Tomić, a Bosnian Croat from Ljubija, passed through the Keraterm, Omarska and Trnopolje camps in the Prijedor area in the summer of 1992. In Trnopolje he heard two contradictory versions of the death of Milan Ćurguz "Krivi", a man who brought food and messages to the detainees from Ljubija, and he later repeated both before the Hague Tribunal.
Ante Tomić, a Bosnian Croat and miner from Ljubija, was detained in 1992 in the Keraterm, Omarska and Trnopolje camps. According to his testimony, one night in July in Omarska he was beaten by a group of eight guards while trying to fill a bucket with water. He survived and in 2001 testified before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).
Personal testimony · Omarska · June 1992 – August 1992
Ante Tomić from Ljubija, a former worker at the Omarska mine, was arrested in early June 1992 and went through the Keraterm, Omarska and Trnopolje camps. According to his testimony, on his last night in Omarska he was beaten by the younger brother of the commander Miroslav Kvočka and by other guards, and in the camp he watched his fellow detainees die. After the war he lives in Hamburg, writes about the camp and gives testimony.
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 · April 30, 1992 – August 6, 1992
Ante Tomić, a Bosnian Croat and miner from Ljubija, was arrested on the night of 13–14 June 1992 and spent almost three weeks in the Keraterm camp, followed by more than a month in Omarska, where he was beaten into a four-day unconsciousness and thrown onto a pile of dead bodies. He survived and in 2001 testified before the Hague Tribunal in the proceedings against the Keraterm commanders.
Personal testimony · Briševo · April 29, 1992 – November 17, 1992
Ivo Atlija, a Bosnian Croat from Briševo near Prijedor, survived the attack on his village on 24 July 1992, in which his father and neighbours were killed. In the following weeks he helped bury the dead in Briševo, Stara Rijeka and Mlinari, and in November 1992 he left Bosnia in a convoy to Zagreb. He later testified before the ICTY in the trials of Milomir Stakić and Ratko Mladić.