BiH – Crimes Against Serbs – Silos Camp
Autor sjovicicslavuj | 26 Januar, 2011 | read_nums (2594) 
SARAJEVO,
January 26 (SRNA) – The last concentration camp in BiH to close was
Silos – on St. Sava’s Day 15 years ago, two months after the Dayton
accords were initialled.
The Silos camp, which had held more than
600 Serbian civilians, on that day released 44 inmates, SRNA was told
by Slavko Jovicic, who spent 1,334 days – 44 months – in Muslim-run
death camps. The war in BiH lasted 42 months!
He said that 24 Serbs died as a result of daily tortures and starvation.
“Some 50 Serbs were killed in the ‘tunnel of Serbian suffering,’ which
the Muslims called the ‘tunnel of salvation’ – six hailing from Silos
and the rest from concentration camp in Hrasnica,” Jovicic said.
He stressed that Silos held men aged 14 to 90, and 11 women, one of whom was six months pregnant.
“Other than 11 reserve soldiers captured on Hrasnica front line, the internees were all civilians,” states Jovicic.
“According to my information and evidence, over 600 Serbian civilians,
mostly from Pazarici and Tarcin, were held at Silos at one time or
another,” says Jovicic, who is a member of the BiH House of
Representatives.
In addition to the daily physical abuse and
beatings, these Serbs were submitted to the worst punishment known to
civilised man – starvation.
The only meals were five spoonfuls
of some liquid and a piece of bread, which circumstance lasted for six
months, changing only after the ICRC began delivering food to the
starved internees.
“At the beginning, I lost 34 kg in 63 days,
falling from my initial weight of 77 to 43. Were it not for my skin, my
bones would have fallen apart. We weighed ourselves on scales used for
wheat,” adds Jovicic.
In 1993, the Muslims began taking the
Silos inmates to Muslim front lines in Hrasnica, Mount Igman, the Jewish
Cemetery, Ormanj, and so on, where they dug canals, built
fortifications, bunkers, and the like, relates Jovicic.
“Silos
was the most notorious of the concentration camps in BiH, not only
because it lasted the longest but also because the internees were
tortured by 167 methods, according the statements of witnesses,”
stresses Jovicic.
He said that all the documentation on Silos
was surrendered to ICTY prosecutor Carla Del Ponte, but that she never
gave a thought to prosecuting any of the Muslim criminals, on whom there
is incontrovertible evidence of their commission of the most horrific
crimes against innocent Serbian civilians.
He says that the BiH
Prosecution is behaving the same way. This institution has not even
opened a single case where Serbs were the victims; in the meantime, 70
of the surviving inmates have died.
“The Silos camp remains a
horrific reminder of the Serbs sufferings, which the contemporary,
civilised world can not even imagine,” SRNA was told by this survivor of
the Silos concentration camp.
