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| liberated by = | notable inmates = | notable books = | website = }} The Omarska camp was a death camp run by Bosnian Serb forces in the mining town of Omarska, near Prijedor in northern Bosnia and Herzegovina, set up for Bosniak and Croat men and women during the Prijedor massacre. Functioning in the first months of the Bosnian War in 1992, it was one of 677 alleged detention centers and camps set up throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina during the war. While nominally an "investigation center" or "assembly point" for members of the Bosniak and Croatian population,〔 Human Rights Watch classified Omarska as a concentration camp.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/country,,HRW,,BIH,,3ae6a8368,0.html )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=A mission to assist with field and laboratory work for the International Criminal Tribunal to the former Yugoslavia in its investigation into human rights violations in Bosnia. )〕 The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, located in The Hague, has found several individuals guilty of crimes against humanity perpetrated at Omarska. Murder, torture, rape, and abuse of prisoners was common.〔 About 5,000–7,000 Bosniaks and Croats were held in appalling conditions at the camp for about five months in the spring and summer of 1992,〔 including 37 women. Hundreds died of starvation, punishment beatings and ill-treatment. ==Overview== Omarska was a predominantly Serb village in northwestern Bosnia, near the town of Prijedor. The camp in the village existed from about 25 May to about 21 August 1992, when the Bosnian Serb military and police unlawfully segregated, detained and confined some of more than 7,000 Bosniaks and Bosnian Croats captured in the ethnic cleansing of Prijedor. Bosnian Serb authorities termed it an "investigation center" and the detainees were accused of alleged paramilitary activities. By the end of 1992, the war would result in the death or forced departure of most of the Bosniak and Croat population of Prijedor municipality. About 7,000 people went missing from a population of 25,000, and there are 145 mass graves and hundreds of individual graves in the extended region. There is conflicting information about how many people were killed at Omarska. According to survivors, usually about 30 and sometimes as many as 150 men were singled-out and killed in the camp every night. The U.S. State Department and other governments believe that, at a minimum, hundreds of detainees, whose identities are known and unknown, did not survive; many others were killed during the evacuation of the camps in the Prijedor area.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Omarska camp」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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