Former detention facility in Vijaka, Prnjavor

In the spring and summer of 1992, in Vijaka, Municipality of Prijedor, a detention facility was established for Bosniak and Croat civilians from the Derventa area. The facility was run by SJB Derventa and VRS. The prisoners were subjected to inhumane conditions and daily abuse, interrogations and beatings. One prisoner died as a result of his injuries.

For war crimes committed in the Municipality of Prnjavor, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) convicted, under the command responsibility doctrine, Momčilo Krajišnik, the wartime president of the Republika Srpska Assembly, sentencing him to 20 years in prison, Biljana Plavšić, the wartime member of the Presidency of Republika Srpska, sentencing her to 11 years in prison, Mićo Stanišić, wartime minister of interior of Republika Srpska, sentencing him to 22 yers in prison, Stojan Župljanin, chief of SJB Banja Luka, sentencing him to 22 years in prison, and Radoslav Brđanin, president of the Crisis Staff of the Autonomous Region of Krajina, sentencing him to 30 years in prison.