Hotel Vilina vlas

ICTY

Non-Serb civilians began to disappear from the area as early as April 1992, and hundreds of Bosniaks were killed over the next few months. (para. 51. Vasiljević, p. 19.), (paras. 698-701. Krajišnik, pp. 253-254.), (paras. 1400., 1402. Stanišić and Župljanin, vol. I, p. 453.)

Non-Serb civilians were subjected to other forms of abuse and humiliation, such as rape and beatings. (para. 54. Vasiljević, p. 20.), (para. 890. Lukić et al., p. 372.), (para. 1402. Stanišić and Župljanin, vol. I, p. 453.)

On June 7, an armed group forcibly took seven Bosniak civilians to the eastern bank of the Drina River, lined them up and opened fire, killing five of them, while two escaped. (para. 97. Vasiljević, p. 38.), (para. 200. Lukić et al., p. 99.), (para. 1397. Stanišić and Župljanin, vol. I, p. 452.)

The armed group had previously arrested the seven civilians and taken them to a house near the Bikavac hotel, then to the Hotel Vilina vlas in Višegradska Banja, and later towards Višegradska Župa near the Drina River. (paras. 99-104. Vasiljević, pp. 38-40.), (para. 1397. Stanišić and Župljanin, vol. I, p. 452.)

Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina

The spa/hotel Vilina Vlas, a rehabilitation centre, was turned into a camp where women and girls were brought and systematically mistreated. Some verdicts state that it was a spa, some a hotel. (Željko Lelek, p. 19.)

Women and girls who were held captive in Vilina Vlas were raped and sexually abused. (Željko Lelek, p. 40-41, 43-45, 46-47, 2, 4.), (para. 307-313. Oliver Krsmanović, pp. 74-76, 8.)

In the second half of October 1992, in the village of Mioče near Rudo, 16 Bosniak civilians were arrested from a bus traveling on the route Priboj – Rudo. They were taken to Hotel Vilina Vlas where they were tortured, and then to the banks of the Drina River where they were killed. (paras. 276-285. Oliver Krsmanović, pp. 68-71, 6.)

The remains of only one person who was taken off the bus in Mioča were found. (paras. 206., 210. Oliver Krsmanović, pp. 52, 53.)