The Stajićevo camp (''Logor Stajićevo'') was an agricultural farm in Stajićevo near

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(then part of

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, then FRY) where Croatian prisoners of war and civilians were kept by Serbian authorities.The Prosecutorof the Tribunal Against Slobodan Milosevic
/ref> The camp also acted as a transit facility where prisoners were taken before being moved to the

Sremska Mitrovica camp Sremska Mitrovica Prison (Serbian: Казнено-поправни завод у Сремској Митровици / ''Kazneno-popravni zavod u Sremskoj Mitrovici'') is the biggest prison in Serbia, consisting of two facilities. It is situated i ...

. Individual reports have said that 1500 people were held there.Final report of the United Nations Commission of Experts established pursuant to security council resolution 780
The ICTY's figure for the camp was 1700 detainees. The camp was cited in the

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's case against then Serbian president

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is also indicted on charges by the ICTY related to the camp. Prisoners at the camp included future Croatian parliamentarian Ivica Pančić's father and brother.Nacional, interview with Ivica Pancic, the new Croatian Minister for War Veterans' Affairs, 7/21/00
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Conditions at the camp

Former prisoners at the camp reported being beaten, with at least one claiming to have received electric shocks by guards. According to reports, the White Eagle paramilitary was also active at the camp. According to the reports, the age of the detainees ranged from 8 to 80. At least 17 people were killed in the camp.Final report of the United Nations Commission of Experts, established pursuant to security council resolution 780 (1992), Annex VIII - Prison camps; Under the Direction of: M. Cherif Bassiouni; S/1994/674/Add.2 (Vol. IV), 27 May 1994
Annex VIII: Prison camps (part 10/10)
, (p. 5916-6043). Accessdate 17 October 2010.. The conditions in the camp were generally poor: people had to sleep on the concrete floor in November on their first day in the camp, but were later given a blanket. In the first 10 days, they received only two meals a day, mostly tea and bread with cheese. There were also no toilets in the farm, so the detainees had to relieve themselves on the floor. After 10 days,

latrine A latrine is a toilet or an even simpler facility that is used as a toilet within a sanitation system. For example, it can be a communal trench in the earth in a camp to be used as emergency sanitation, a hole in the ground ( pit latrine), or ...

s were finally added in the camp. After five days, they were given water to wash themselves.Yugoslavia – further reports of torture
,

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, March 1992. p. 15. Accessdate 17 October 2010. Detainees were released in a

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in January 1992, after spending over three months in the camp.

References

External links

Vukovar 1991 Association and HLC on Detention Camps in Serbia
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