In September 1995, a few weeks before the end of the war, as Serb forces were withdrawing from Sanski Most, members of the Serbian Volunteer Guard detained dozens of Bosniak civilians in the boiler room of the Sanus hotel, and then killed eleven men in Trnova and 65 people in Sasina. To date, none of the direct perpetrators has been punished; only Jovica Stanišić and Franko Simatović, heads of the State Security Service of Serbia, have been finally convicted.
Biography · Potočari · July 11, 1995 – July 12, 1995
Fatima Muhić was born in July 1995 on the grounds of the former battery factory in Potočari, where thousands of refugees sought shelter after the fall of Srebrenica. Her mother Hava never saw her, and her father Hajrudin did not live to meet his daughter. The child received her name only shortly before the burial on 11 July 2013 in Potočari, where she was laid to rest as the youngest victim of the genocide in Srebrenica.
Account of an event · Omarska · August 5, 1992 – August 6, 1992
Dr. Esad Sadiković, a respected physician from Prijedor, was detained in 1992 in the Omarska camp, where, according to the Institute for Genocide Research Canada, he continued to help detainees as a doctor. In August 1992, shortly before the camp was dissolved, a guard took him away, and the detainees stood up and thanked him, as Nusret Sivac testified before the Hague Tribunal. According to the Institute, his remains were found in a cave near Sanski Most and buried in Prijedor in 2007.
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 1992 – August 1992
According to his own testimony, Drago Perković was detained in the Omarska camp, where a fellow detainee, the Prijedor physician Dr. Esad Sadiković, known as Eso, cleaned a badly infected wound on his arm without any medical supplies. Perković survived. Dr. Sadiković was taken from the camp and killed in August 1992.
Muhamed Čehajić, a professor and the freely elected president of the Prijedor Municipal Assembly, was removed from office on 30 April 1992, when Serb forces took power in the town and Milomir Stakić took his place. He was arrested in May 1992, held in the Keraterm and Omarska camps, and did not return after the end of July 1992. From the camp he sent his family a letter asking that his son keep studying.
According to Amor Mašović, a man who collected the bodies of those killed in Prijedor in 1992 could not sleep for years, and then showed investigators the location of the mass grave at Tomašica. During the 2013 exhumation, the remains of hundreds of victims from the Prijedor municipality were found. Evidence from Tomašica was presented in 2015 in the trial of Ratko Mladić in The Hague.