Concentration camp

Elementary School "Lukavac Grad"

Derviša Sušića bb, 75300 Lukavac

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Elementary School "Lukavac Grad"

1992

In early autumn 1992, the Lukavac Grad Elementary School was one of the detention centres functioning in the Lukavac area. Detainees were unlawfully detained, threatened with firearms, beaten during interrogations with various objects and tortured.

Court facts

Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina

At the beginning of October 1992, military police were stationed in the premises of the elementary school in Lukavac. The military police illegally detained the married couple Aziz and Radinka Šahat for allegedly owning a radio station and collaborating with the Serbs on Ozren. Radinka was then in her fifth month of pregnancy. (Zijad Srabović et al., p. 5.)

Aziz Šahat was tortured and beaten with batons and punches all over his body and was threatened with a gun to make him confess to his alleged collaboration with the Serbs. (Zijad Srabović et al., p. 5.)

While the military police were beating Aziz Šahat, Zijad Srabović interrogated Radinka Šahat, treating her inhumanely, demanding that she admit that she and her husband Aziz owned a radio station and collaborated with the Serbs on Ozren. Srabović threatened to kill her husband if she did not confess. (Zijad Srabović and others, p. 5.)

Aziz and Radinka Šahat were held illegally in the premises of the elementary school for the next five days, even though Zijad Srabović, given his position, knew that there was no legal basis for such treatment and imprisonment of civilians. (Zijad Srabović et al., p. 5.)