ON THIS DAY: SERB CIVILIANS WERE IMPRISONED IN ČELEBIĆI CAMP

BIJELJINA, JUNE 1 /SRNA/ – On this day in 1992, Serb civilians who had previously been detained in Bradina were taken to the Čelebići camp near Konjic, where they were held by forces loyal to the wartime Muslim leader Alija Izetbegović. The Čelebići camp was a detention facility where Serbs from the municipality of Konjic and the surrounding area were tortured and killed. The International Committee of the Red Cross registered more than 400 people who suffered in various ways in this camp.