{"id":234566,"date":"2022-01-27T15:32:47","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T14:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nenasilje.org\/marking-the-anniversary-of-the-closure-of-the-silos-detention-facility-near-hadzici\/"},"modified":"2022-11-21T11:04:02","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T10:04:02","slug":"marking-the-anniversary-of-the-closure-of-the-silos-detention-facility-near-hadzici","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nenasilje.org\/en\/marking-the-anniversary-of-the-closure-of-the-silos-detention-facility-near-hadzici\/","title":{"rendered":"Marking the anniversary of the closure of the Silos detention facility near Had\u017ei\u0107i"},"content":{"rendered":"

The anniversary of the closure of the Silos camp was commemorated with a liturgy at the Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in Osenik, a visit and laying of roses in front of the Silos in Tar\u010din and a commemoration at the Cultural Centre in Isto\u010dno Sarajevo.<\/p>\n

The Centre for Nonviolent Action organised the attendance of War veterans and peace activists from the region at the commemoration marking the anniversary of the closure of the Silos detention facility in Tar\u010din near Had\u017ei\u0107i.<\/p>\n

A group of peace activists and war veterans, former members of the Army of RBiH, the Croatian Defence Council (HVO), the Republika Srpska Army (VRS) and the Army of Yugoslavia (VJ) joined the surviving prisoners and their families in marking the anniversary of the closure of the Silos detention facility in Tar\u010din.<\/p>\n

From May 1992 to January 1996, the silos in Tar\u010din was turned into a detention facility for Serb and Croat civilians and soldiers and was run by the Army of RBiH. Several hundred prisoners were held at this facility, and according to the Judgement of the Court of BiH, they were subjected to inhumane conditions, abuse, beatings, forced displacement and forced labour.<\/p>\n

\u201cThrough our earlier activities, we marked this building as an unmarked site of suffering and appealed to the relevant authorities to allow for this building to have a dignified memorial. Today, we are here with former prisoners to offer our support, to let them know they are not alone and that there are people from all sides who sympathise with them and want to condemn their detention in inhumane conditions and the torture they were subjected to. Aware of the suffering in the Had\u017ei\u0107i Municipality, we want to support each other in remembering all victims,\u201d said Amer Deli\u0107, a war veteran of the Army of RBiH and member of the Centre for Nonviolent Action.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The Court of BiH convicted Nezir Kazi\u0107, the former commander of the ARBiH 9th Mountain Brigade, sentencing him to ten years in prison, while Fadil \u010covi\u0107, the former chief of SJB in Had\u017ei\u0107i, and Be\u0107ir Huji\u0107, the former police commander in Pazari\u0107, were sentenced to eight years in prison. Halid \u010covi\u0107, who was the chief of Silos, and Nermin Kalember, who was a guard there, were sentenced to five years in prison.<\/p>\n

Jankica Samoukovi\u0107, a Silos prison camp survivor, said that the youngest prisoner was 14 and the oldest was 85, and that some 650 people were detained at the camp from 1992 to 1996. According to the testimony of the prison camp survivors, 24 prisoners were killed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe prisoners were mostly people taken from their homes, there were very few prisoners of war. We suffered a great deal, I\u2019m not the only one from my home to be imprisoned, my father was held at the Silos all the way up to 19 January 1996, my sister was in a camp in Konjic. As difficult as it is for me today, I\u2019m glad that it is being marked, that it is being recognised that there was a camp here, that innocent people were held there for years of their lives,\u201d said Samoukovi\u0107.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Samoukovi\u0107 pointed out that every person, whoever they are and wherever they come from, who suffered in a camp must work towards ensuring that something like that never happens again to anyone.<\/p>\n

\u201cI participate in peace activities and I\u2019m glad that prison camp survivors who feel this pain can come closer together, can feel for each other and recognise each other\u2019s pain. It is my opinion that it takes at least two to have a war, and in our case at least three, that\u2019s the basis of war. I\u2019m glad others also recognise this, that we can take responsibility for what happened to us and say, now let\u2019s work together to ensure it never happens again,\u201d explained Samoukovi\u0107.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Under the organisation of the Centre for Nonviolent Action, peace activists and war veterans from the region have attended commemorations in BiH in Gornji Vakuf, at Site 715 near Zavidovi\u0107i, in Stog near Vozu\u0107a, in Novi Grad\/Bosanski Novi, Sanski Most (Hrastova glavica), Sijekovac near Brod, Lani\u0161ta near Br\u010dko, Trusina near Konjic, Ahmi\u0107i near Vitez, Grabovica, Uborak and Sutina near Mostar, Bri\u0161evo and Zecovi near Prijedor, Kori\u0107anske stijene, Stupni Do near Vare\u0161, Boderi\u0161te near Br\u010dko, the bridge over the Sava in Br\u010dko, Bradina near Konjic, Skelani near Srebrenica, and in Serbia in Grdeli\u010dka klisura near Leskovac, Varvarin near Kru\u0161evac, Aleksinac, as well as in Croatia in Pakrac, Varivode and Go\u0161i\u0107 near Knin.<\/p>\n

Mirko Ze\u010devi\u0107 Tadi\u0107, an HVO war veteran from Br\u010dko, said it was important that we talk to each other about what happened to us in the 1990s, that we express compassion for all victims and show what war really brings.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is important that we extend a hand to each other, not just a hand of reconciliation, but that we give each other hope for a better life, hope that we can function better after the war that brought so much suffering to all of us. Too many lives were lost, too many people displaced, and we now have to rebuild trust. This is one of the ways to do that, when we honour sites where people were imprisoned, tortured, all the sites where people were killed,\u201d said Ze\u010devi\u0107 Tadi\u0107.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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