Genocide: - DIIS

The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
with the intent to destroy, in part, the Bosnian Muslim and Bosnian Croat
people as national, ethnic, or religious groups.” 114 At both camps, inmates
were crowded together with inadequate or no toilet or washing facilities.
They were fed, according to the indictment, “...starvation rations,” and
given foul water, no medical care, no bedding, and no changes of clothing.
115 Detailing the horrors of the two camps in Omarska and Keraterm,
the Prosecution reported:
severe beatings and torture of prisoners were commonplace. The camp guards and
others who came to the camps and physically abused the detainees, used all manner
of weapons during these beatings, including wooden batons, metal rods and
tools, lengths of thick industrial cable, rifl e butts and knives. After they were beaten,
tortured, or sexually assaulted, the detainees were carried, dragged or forced to
crawl back into their rooms without any form of medical care for their injuries. 116
Referring to Trnopolje, the indictment alleged that this camp:
served an additional sinister purpose: it was a location for the sexual assault, rape,
and torture of the detained women by camp personnel, who were both police and
military personnel, and by other military units from the area who came to the
camp for that purpose. In many instances, women and girls were taken from the
camp and were raped, tortured, or sexually abused at other locations. 117
The trial of Kovacevic began on 6 July 1998 but was aborted by his death
in the ICTY Detention Unit on 1 August 1998. 118
The third person indicted in this complex is Milomir Stakic, another political
leader in the town of Prijedor. 119 On 30 April 1992, Stakic had been
installed as “President of the Municipal Assembly” and President of the
“Crisis Staff of the Municipality of Prijedor”. According to the Prosecu-
115 Ibid.
116 Ibid., para. 27.
117 First Amended Indictment of 23 June 1998, para. 29.
118 See the Order Terminating the Proceedings Against Milan Kovacevic, 24 August 1998.
119 Initial Indictment of 13 March 1997; Second Amended Indictment of 5 October 2001; Third
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