Auxiliary facility at the Public Security Station

In 1992, the Serb authorities in the Prijedor Municipality held civilians, predominantly Croats and Bosniaks, prisoner in 58 detention facilities and concentration centres. The SJB building was mostly used as a transit centre for prisoners being transferred to Omarska, while the SJB auxiliary facility was used as a site of detention for Bosniak And Croat civilians. It was located behind the main police building, in the yard, and had only one cell. The cell was two by three metres and 30 prisoners were confined in it. The prisoners were abused and beaten on a daily basis. The police transferred the prisoners from the SJB to the Omarska camp, but before they left, the prisoners were forced to walk through a “gauntlet” of policemen who beat them as they passed.

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 ARK Crisis Staff, was convicted for war crimes committed in multiple municipalities in BiH and sentenced to 32 years in prison; Momčilo Krajišnik, speaker of the Republika Srpska National Assembly, was sentenced to 27 years in prison; Biljana Plavšić, wartime member of the Presidency of Republika Srpska, was sentenced to 11 years in prison; Mićo Stanišić, wartime Minister of the Interior or Republika Srpska, was sentenced to 22 years in prison; Stojan Župljanin, chief of the Banja Luka Public Security Centre, was sentenced to 22 years in prison; the ICTY sentenced Milomir Stakić, president of the Prijedor Municipality Crisis Staff, to 40 years in prison. Radovan Karadžić, as the president of Republika Srpska and commander in chief of its armed forces, was sentenced to life imprisonment.