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Stajićevo camp

Стајићево, Italy

Stajićevo camp

The Stajićevo camp (Logor Stajićevo) was an agricultural farm in Stajićevo near Zrenjanin, Serbia (then part of SFR Yugoslavia, then FRY) where Croatian prisoners of war and civilians were kept by Serbian authorities. The camp also acted as a transit facility where prisoners were taken before being

moved to the Sremska Mitrovica camp. Individual reports have said that 1500 people were held there. The ICTY's figure for the camp was 1700 detainees. The camp was cited in the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia's case against then Serbian president Slobodan Milošević. Goran Hadžić is also indicted on charges by the ICTY related to the camp. Prisoners at the camp included people captured in the Battle of Vukovar such as Fred Matić, who described it as an animal barn where living conditions were the worst in his experience of three Serbian camps, and the future Croatian parliamentarian Ivica Pančić's father and brother.

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