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Source: (Department of State)
Keraterm Personnel, Eyewitness Descriptions
May-August 92:
A 44-year-old Bosnian Muslim from Prijedor, Bosnia, gave the
following report based on his personal experience as an inmate, at
the Keraterm prisoner camp, from May to August 1992.
Keraterm camp was commanded by a 32-year-old Serbian male from
Prijedor who had previously been employed at the Celuloz Paper
Mill.
The guard who first checked arriving prisoners at the camp was
almost always a brutal 22-year-old man known only as "the cook"
because of his previous occupation at a restaurant in the Sarajevo
Agricultural Bank building in Prijedor. He routinely stripped
incoming prisoners of their jewelry and money beating them with
metal pipes or thick wooden sticks, often breaking bones. He also
personally participated in the mass execution of nearly 400 men in
the prisoner's courtyard in the early morning hours of July 19,
1992.
Also notorious for his brutality in the greater Prijedor area and
the most-feared man at the Keraterm was a taxi cab driver who
drove a beige colored Polish PZ125 taxi with Prijedor
registration. Though not assigned to Keraterm prison, he freely
participated in beatings, shootings, and the fatal torture of
prisoners from the day Keraterm opened until its closure.
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