On 1 June 1992, Serb forces entered the undefended village of Prhovo in the municipality of Ključ, separated the men from the women and children, and killed some of them in the village and on the road towards the village of Peći. According to one source, 53 persons were killed; according to the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, more than 40. The Court of BiH has issued final convictions of Marko Adamović and Boško Lukić for crimes against humanity in Ključ, which include Prhovo.
Account of an event · Manjača · May 30, 1992 – July 28, 1992
Omer Filipović, a history professor and the president of the MBO in Ključ, was arrested after the Serb authorities took power in Ključ at the end of May 1992 and was taken via the Stara Gradiška camp to the Manjača camp near Banja Luka. There he was killed in the summer of 1992 together with the detainee Esad Bender; according to his brother, this happened on 28 July 1992, and according to the report of a former security officer of the camp, at the end of August 1992.
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 · 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.
In 1992, around 30,000 non-Serb men, women and children passed through the Omarska, Keraterm and Trnopolje camps near Prijedor, and among the 102 children killed from Prijedor was a two-month-old infant. More than three decades later, families are still waiting to learn where their loved ones lie. This story follows the fates of those who were killed, of survivors, and of those who died without seeing their sons buried.