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Silos in Polje
Location:
Village of Polje, DerventaImportance of the locality:
The silos was used in 1992 as a detention site for Serbs from the Derventa area. As the Croat forces of HVO and HV were withdrawing, the prisoners were transferred from the warehouse in Rabić to the silos. There, they were subjected to abuse and beatings.
Entity: Republika Srpska
Ethnic group: Serbs
Area that victims came from: Derventa and Posavina
Responsibility: HVO and HV
Court trials:
The Court of BiH convicted Almaz Nezirović as a member of the Military Police of the 193rd Derventa HVO Brigade and sentenced him to 2 years in prison. From late April to late July 1992, Nezirović acted alone and in concert with other members of HVO and participated in the torture, inhumane treatment, imposing grave suffering and injuring the bodily integrity and health of Serb civilians from the Derventa area detained in the Silos camp in Polje, Derventa Municipality.
Data source: Court of BiH (updated 06.12.2019)
Marked and photographed: 23.05.2017.
Map:
Updated: 25.02.2020
Legenda
Security services command centre - CSB
Herzeg Bosnia - HB
Croat Defense Forces - HOS
Army of Croatia - HV
Croat Defense Council - HVO
Yugoslav National Army - JNA
International Crime Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia - ICTY
Ministry of Interior - MUP
People's Defense of the Autonomous Province of Western Bosnia - NO APZB
Police station - SJB
Serb Army of Krajina - SVK
Territorial defense of Bosnia-Herzegovina - TO BiH
Army of Republic of Srpska - VRS
Army of Yugoslavia - VJ