Six former Bosnian soldiers and policemen have been charged with war crimes against Serb detainees at a camp near Sarajevo during the 1992-1995 civil war.
The six are accused of acts of torture, inhuman treatment, pillaging, and physical and mental abuse in the Visoko region, which were a systematic and continuous manner. They also committed humiliating acts against women and adolescents. Nearly 600 people, including around 40 women and a dozen children, were detained at the Visoko camp. A 2012 report by the War Crimes Research Center based in the Bosnian Serb entity stated that the torture of women was similar to that of men. At least eight Serb women were raped there, including one who died from her injuries. Around 90 witnesses will be called by the prosecution to testify in the trial. Hundreds of detention camps were set up across Bosnia during the war, with the most notorious centres being in the Prijedor region, where over 6,000 people were detained between April and August 1992.
