44°24'45"N 19°7'38.0"E

Zvornik - Karakaj

Embroidery Factory ‘Vezionica’

The detention centre, where the Muslim population from the region was held, existed from April to June 1992. It was controlled by the Bosnian Serb Army. According to ED’s testimony, when the war began in May 1992, she fled her husband’s family home with her daughter, twin sister, mother-in-law and her sister's mother-in-law. They hid in the basement of a house, but were found by Serbian soldiers and taken to the ‘Vezionica’ embroidery factory in Karakaj. They stayed there for ten days. In those ten days she was raped more than three times by strangers.

In addition to the rape, she witnessed torture and illtreatment of other women and men. She and her sister were forced to dispose of dismembered body parts of the people who had been killed there. After ten days in Vezionica, Serbian soldiers dropped them off at a field (a demarcation line between the war fronts) in Vidikovac. From there they went on to Tuzla. They stayed in Tulza for a short time in the collective centre Mejdan (Tuzla Sports Centre). After that, ED went to Croatia and met her husband again in Zagreb, where he worked as a construction worker. She lived with him and her daughter in a hut husband had used as a field hand for years. After a year they decided to leave Croatia. They received residence in Germany (Ulm) as war refugees. In 1996 they returned to Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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