former Posavina Hotel, Brčko

The Posavina Hotel in Brčko was used during May 1992 as a detention site for Bosniak and Croat civilians from the Brčko area. The prisoners were subjected to harsh and inhumane conditions with regular beatings, interrogations and psychological abuse. Apart from men, women and children were also held in detention at this site. Most of the prisoners were transferred to the Luka detention facility.

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) convicted Momčilo Krajišnik, the wartime speaker of the National Assembly of Republika Srpska, for war crimes committed in Brčko, 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. On 5 July 2001, Goran Jelisić was convicted by the ICTY for crimes committed in the territory of Brčko and sentenced to 40 years in prison. Pero Rikanović was convicted before the Appellate Court of the Brčko District of BiH for war crimes against prisoners of war and against the civilian population and sentenced to five and a half years in prison.