Old Culture Centre

From April to August 1992, the old Culture Centre in Pale was used as a detention facility for non-Serbs. The nearby public security station of MUP RS was in control of the facility. The prisoners were subjected to harsh and inhumane conditions and daily abuse and beatings. At least 5 people were killed at the camp or succumbed to injuries from the beatings.

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) convicted Momčilo Krajišnik, the wartime speaker of the National Assembly of Republika Srpska, under the doctrine of command responsibility, and sentenced him to 20 years in prison. Biljana Plavšić, wartime member of the Presidency of Republika Srpska, was sentenced to 11 years in prison. Radovan Karadžić, as the president of Republika Srpska and commander in chief of its armed forces, was sentenced to life imprisonment. The ICTY Trial Chamber convicted Mićo Stanišić and sentenced him to 22 years in prison.In 1999, the Supreme Court of FBiH convicted Milomir Tepeš and sentenced him to 10 years in prison.