Geography of Republika Srpska - Vilina Vlas, Krupa, Lim, Trebi AT, Skakavac, Mlje?anica, Lijvilina Vlas, Krupa, Lim, Trebi AT, Skakavac, Mlje?anica, Lijev?e, Romanija, Mala Usora Ev?e, Romanija, Mala Usora (Paperback)

Chapters: Vilina Vlas, Krupa, Lim, Trebi at, Skakavac, Mlje?anica, Lijev?e, Romanija, Mala Usora. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 33. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Vilina Vlas is a health spa that served as one of the main detention facilities where Bosniak prisoners were beaten, tortured and sexually assaulted during the Bosnian War, it is located about seven kilometers south-east of Viegrad, on the way to Gorazde. After the war, Vilina Vlas spa was re-opened as a tourist facility. In 1992 the concentration and rape camp at the Vilina Vlas hotel was one of the Viegrad area's main detention facilities. It was established by the Uzice Corps at the end of April 1992 and played a significant role in the ethnic cleansing of the area's Bosniak population. The hotel served as a camp "brothel." Bosniak women and girls, including many not yet 14 years old, were brought to the camp by police officers and members of the paramilitary groups the White Eagles and Arkan's and Seselj's men. Milan Luki, leader of a local group of paramilitaries referred to variously as the White Eagles (Beli Orlovi), the Avengers or the Wolves, established his headquarters at the Vilina Vlas Hotel, one of various locations where local Bosniaks were detained. The group, with ties to the local police and Serb military units, played a prominent role in the ethnic cleansing of Viegrad, committing numerous crimes including murder, rape, torture, beatings, looting and destruction of property. Many rapes in the Viegrad area were allegedly perpetrated in an apparently systematic fashion. Reports to the United Nations Commission of Experts to the Security Council (the Bassiouni Commission) state that victims were rounded up and transported to places like Vilina Vlas and the Hotel Viegrad apparently for the purpose of ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=242995