Una Hotel

From May to August 1992, the Una Hotel was used by the VRS as a detention facility for Bosniaks and Croats from Novi Grad/Bosanski Novi i the surrounding municipalities. The conditions were harsh, prisoners were kept in a 15m2 room without windows or toilet facilities. In addition to daily abuse, humiliation and beatings, more than ten prisoners were killed at the Una Hotel.

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) convicted a number of people under the command responsibility doctrine for crimes committed in Bosanska Krajina. Radoslav Brđanin, president of the Crisis Staff of the Krajina Autonomous Region, was sentenced to 30 years in prison. Momčilo Krajišnik, Speaker of the National Assembly of Republika Srpska, was sentenced to 20 years in prison. Biljana Plavšić, wartime member of the Presidency of Republika Srpska, was sentenced to 11 years in prison. Stojan Župljanin, police commander in Banja Luka, was sentenced to 22 years in prison. Radovan Karadžić, as the president of Republika Srpska and commander in chief of its armed forces, was sentenced to life imprisonment.