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former Laser Bus Company, Brčko
Location:
Brčko District
Importance of the locality:
The Laser Bus Company in Brčko was used from 4 to 10 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. On 8 May 1992, the women and children were expelled to Šatrovići and Čelić, while the male prisoners were transferred to another detention facility in Brčko, the Luka camp.
Entity:
Brčko district
Ethnic group:
Bosniaks, Croats
Area that victims came from:
Brčko and the surrounding area
Responsibility:
VRS, SJB Brčko and paramilitary units
Court trials:
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.
Data source:
ICTY, Appellate Court of the Brčko District (updated 15.02.2022)
Marked and photographed:
23.02.2022
Map:
Updated:
15.04.2022
Legenda
Army of Republic of Bosnia and Hercegovina – ARBiH
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
Aktualizovano: 27. December 2019
