Reply With Quotehe looks younger today than he did in the photo from 20 years ago
Back in the death camp...
An image that shocked the world, thought to be a thing of past in the 1990ies the world was yet again introduced to the concentration camps in one image.
The year was 1992 and the camp was Trnopolje in Bosnia.
Now 20 years later the same man, at the same place
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...-20-years.html
he looks younger today than he did in the photo from 20 years ago
wow...just wow.
the man must have a lot of scars from those days.
Thank you for sharing.
I hope this man has found peace.
Horrifying picture, to think that this took place '90s Europe makes it all the more saddening.
Well said, Elbs.
I always thought that concentration camp, was called Omarska
As far as I know it was two different camps.Originally Posted by frostilicus
What makes it more saddening, is the time it took for the rest of Europe to do anything to stop it. Dark and sad days.
Serious questions, no disrespect for any victims of that conflict intended:
How come the others in the picture don't look as starved as he does?
If this is a concentration camp, how did someone get in to take pictures and shake hands?
Is that the only fence? It doesn't look tall enough to be meant to keep in a group of people who's life depends on escaping.
Some being more recent prisoners than the others?
Could have stayed longer in the camp than others.
The article states:If this is a concentration camp, how did someone get in to take pictures and shake hands?
Is that the only fence? It doesn't look tall enough to be meant to keep in a group of people who's life depends on escaping.
Yet on August 6, 1992, ITN and Channel 4 crews were led there by Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic’s cronies in a botched propaganda visit.
The Serbs portrayed their Bosnian Muslim prisoners as grateful refugees being protected from the warfare. In fact, they were starving survivors of a genocide campaign after ethnic tension in the region exploded into war.
Prisoners dared only utter words of praise. Yet their frail bodies, the terror in their eyes and the conditions spoke a truth beyond language. And above all it was Fikret’s gaunt image that meant politicians could no longer turn a blind eye to scenes not witnessed since World War II.
As said, time in camp might be a factor. But starvation and sickness affect different people in different ways.
See Steak-Sauces post.
The height of the fence rarely matters when you are beaten, abused, famished and threatened with being killed. Besides, where would you go?
Then I understood that Omarska and Prijedor are different death camps right?
But presumably they were very close to each other.
About Omarska death camp.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omarska_camp
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