Zvornik - Liplje

The Liplje camp was a concentration camp operated between 25 May 1992 and 2 June 1992 by Serbs in the village Liplje near Zvornik. It was set up for Bosniak men, women and children, in an effort to ethnically cleanse the area of all non-Serb residents.

In Liplje, a school and two private houses nearby were turned into one of the most notorious detention camps in the Zvornik municipality, where, according to testimonies from survivors, around 460 people were imprisoned.

Women, children and whole families were brought to Liplje. Adult men were then separated from women and children. There were boys under the age of thirteen with adult men. They slept on school desks, on floors and in hallways. The men were taken out of the classrooms, beaten, cruelly tortured and many of them were raped. A woman, witness NN, says that her stepfather was raped in front of her and his daughters. It was a regular, frequent and mass occurrence. Chetnik rapists did not differentiate between women, children and men. They raped and sexually abused when and whom they wanted.

‘When they captured us, they transferred us to a house in Liplje. We were in that house for four to five days, during that time we were raped and beaten every day. They beat me to unconsciousness. From there they took us to a school in Liplje. Women were placed in another classroom.

There I found women from the village of Marcici, which is located near the village of Snagovo. I have to point out that me and the other women were raped and beaten in the classroom...it was literally gang rape. They lined up one by one on us as they pleased.’

Until today, no one has been held accountable for the killings, the torture and rape of men and women in this camp. The Liplje concentration camp was liberated after one week of occupation by Bosnian Army units; it is known for being the only camp with Bosniak victims liberated during the war