Following is the text of the Supplemental United States Submission of Information to UN Security Council in Accordance with Paragraph 5 of Resolution 771 (1992) and Paragraph 1 of Resolution 780 (1992), dated March 1, 1993.

This is the sixth submission by the United States Government of information pursuant to paragraph 5 of Security Council resolution 771 (1992) relating to the violation of humanitarian law, including grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, being committed in the territory of the former Yugoslavia. As in our previous reports, we have focused on grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, and in accordance with resolution 771, have provided information that is "substantiated", that is, which rests upon eyewitness testimony directly available to us or that includes details sufficient for corroboration.

We have tried not to duplicate information provided to us from other countries and non-governmental sources, which we understand will submit reports pursuant to resolutions 771 and 780. The United States has further information substantiating the incidents included in this report, which we will make available on a confidential basis directly to the commission of experts established under Security Council Resolution 780.

In accordance with paragraph 1 of Resolution 780, the United States intends to continue providing reports as additional relevant information comes into our possession. As in our previous reports, the notation at the end of each of the items indicate the source from which the information was drawn.

(1) July-August 92:

A 20-year-old Bosnian Muslim from the village of Harambine, near Prijedor, described his capture by Serbian forces in July and the events leading to the murder of his father and five other men. He was held in Omarska camp for three weeks, from July 20 until August 6. During his time there, he witnessed the deaths of about 20 men. He was then transferred to Manjaca camp, from which he was released to the International Committee of the Red Cross [ICRC] on December 18, 1992.

The witness fled his home on May 23, 1992, when Serbian soldiers attacked. He said his village was the first in the region attacked by the Serbs because they claimed Muslim soldiers from Harambine had killed Serbian soldiers. He fled with his family to the settlement of Ravne, in the nearby village of Biscani, to live with his uncle. On July 20, however, Serbs came to arrest all men over the age of 15 from Biscani. Judging by their accents and the style of caps which they wore, the witness believes that his captors were Montenegrins.

One hundred meters from the house, on the road leading to the center of Biscani, the soldiers stopped the group and searched them for the valuables. Another 200 meters down the road, the group stopped again. This time the soldiers ordered the eight men, who had lined up in pairs, to begin beating the man next to them in line. The witness was on the end of the line and standing next to his father. Each of the pairs in the group were similar, with father pitted against son, or brother versus brother.

After a short while, the man in the pair next to the witness refused the soldiers' exhortations to beat his son more fiercely. One of the soldiers then marched the man off the road and into the ditch where he shot him. By the end of the ordeal, six of the men either refused or were unable to continue beating their kin and were executed. The witness and the youngest in the group managed to persuade the soldiers to spare them by lying and pleading that they were only 18 years old. The soldiers, however, did beat the two boys badly and the witness lost a tooth.

The two prisoners continued down the road with the soldiers leaving their relatives' bodies in the ditch. After 500 meters, they joined a group of over 100 men, all of whom were ordered to lie on the ground with their hands on their heads. They were then beaten for 30 minutes before two buses arrived to take the men to the detention camp. Many of the men never made it onto the buses. The witness described how an elderly cousin of his was asked his age. The man replied, "70," and was told to go home, but 50 meters before the old man reached his house, another soldier shot him in the back.

After 4 hours, the buses arrived at Omarska camp, a distance of about 20 kilometers from Biscani. All of the men, about 100 in all, were sent to the "white house." The witness was held in the white house for two weeks, during which time he was only interrogated and beaten once. But many mornings, on the way to the toilets, he saw bodies awaiting transport or burial. After two weeks the witness was transferred to a large hangar, where the majority of the prisoners were held. He saw no beatings here, but guards came to the hall sometimes, calling out a list of names of men who would then be taken away. The witness saw some of them die after returning from their beatings.

On four or five occasions, the men would be lined up for a roll call in the central yard after lunch. As they stood there, someone would begin shooting at the group from a distance. They could hear the bullets whistling through the air. He saw a man killed in this manner, and another who was hit in the ear by a bullet. On August 6, the witness was transferred to Manjaca camp where he said beatings occurred but where conditions were much better than they had been in Omarska. (Department of State)

(2) July-August 92:

A 40-year-old Muslim male from Matrici witnessed torture and murders in the Keraterm and Trnopolje camps.

On July 9, 1992, local Serbs and others from outside the area collected all Muslim males from Matrici in groups and marched them to Trnopolje. The witness, one of those rounded up, believes the Serb captors belonged to the White Eagle paramilitary organization and to "Arkan's men." He identified two of the men, both from Gornji Orlovci. The Serbs randomly beat and killed some of the prisoners along the way. The witness saw approximately 25 bodies along the roads and in nearby fields, apparently victims from earlier groups.

Upon arrival at Trnopolje, the men of Matrici were bused to Omarska, then to the Keraterm facility at Prijedor. The men were then confined to room so tightly packed that they could sit but not lie down. For the first several days they received no food or water. Following that period water and inadequate amount of food was provided.

The witness estimates that due to beatings, torture, or executions by guards as well as other Serbs who were not members of the regular camp complement, about 400-500 prisoners of Keraterm died from early July until August 5, 1992, when about 1,500 inmates were transferred to Trnopolje due to an impending visit to Keraterm by the Red Cross. (Department of State)

(3) April-August 92: A 22-year-old male from Teslic, about 60 kilometers southeast of Banja Luka, said that in late April and early May 1992, Serbian infantry forces attacked Mostar, forcing populace to flee into the hills surrounding the city.

Those taken captive were later organized into truck convoys, one of which arrived on June 1 in Gacko. The 15 prisoners in this truck were unloaded in front of city's hotel, where they were beaten by local Serbs before being put into the hotel's basement. Already incarcerated in the basement were about 100 prominent Muslims from Gacko, including its wealthier businessmen, civic leaders, and teachers, as well as one Croat. Every night eight or nine prisoners were taken upstairs and interrogated for military information and beaten for 2 or 3 hours. About 15 never returned. Through messages passed by secret means, the prisoners learned those who disappeared were buried in a mass grave in Gacko's World War II Partisan Cemetery.

One local Serb guard from Gacko, on the night of June 28, began firing into the basement - killing one Muslim, Osman, and wounding another.

On July 1, the prisoners were called from the basement in groups of 10, made to pass through a gauntlet of Serb guards who beat them, and then boarded into a large truck. Semad Memic, the 25-year-old leader of the local chapter of the Mlada Bosna (Young Bosnian) organization, the youth wing of the Muslim Party for Democratic Action (SDA), was ordered from the truck and shot and killed when he tried to escape. The guards also killed two other Muslim prisoners. Instead of being exchanged for Serbian prisoners as they had been told, the roughly 100 Muslims were taken to a former Yugoslav Army Reserve Officer training academy in Bileca that was commanded by a Serb from the Sarajevo area. There the prisoners experienced random beating and were forced to eat from the same cans in which they relieved themselves. Two prisoners subsequently died from injuries received during beatings. (Department of State)

(4) April-August 92:

A 34-year-old Croatian from Sanski Most said that the Serbian repression of the Muslim and Croatian inhabitants of the town, which had began in April with a dismissal of non-Serbian police officers, reached a climax on May 23 when a Serbian artillery element of the Sixth Krajiska Brigade began advancing on Muslim areas from the surrounding hills.

The following morning three- and four-men groups of armed Serbs began arresting male members of Muslim and Croat families. The men were taken to the basement of the police headquarters where they were beaten for days. Some of the men were later released, but of 33 non-Serbian policemen from Sanski Most, 17 were killed there during interrogations. Eight were sent to Manjaca. (Department of State)

(5) 20-30 July 92:

A Bosnian Muslim refugee described rounding up at gun point on July 20 of the inhabitants of the village of Rizvahovici, near Prijedor, by 100-150 Serbian soldiers. About three quarters of this force consisted of Serb "Chetniks" and members of the White Eagle paramilitary group, while the remainder were local Serbs, most of whom were well-known to the Muslim villagers. Two Serbs relayed all orders. The witness along with other men aged 60 or older, was made to wait in a house while the younger villagers and others from the surrounding area were loaded into four buses. During this process, the witness watched through a window of the house as 29 villagers were randomly separated from the younger group and killed by the Chetniks and the White Eagles. Nine days later the witness was brought to a Serbian-run detention center in Trnopolje, commanded by a professor from a technical training school in Prijedor. A local Serbian coal worker was second in charge. During the day and night the witness spent in camp, he saw four Serb soldiers grab a 17-year-old girl and drag her into the bushes. Those inmates within sight of this were forced into the school where they could not see outside. He also observed inhabitants taken out of the camp that night and then heard gunshots. He never saw these individuals return to the camp. (Department of State)

(6) June-July 92:

A 58-year-old Bosnian Muslim said that a Serbian unit identified as the Sixth Brigade from Sanski Most occupied the village of Sanica Gorija on June 1, 1992, and began rounding up all Muslims between the ages of 18 and 60 for transport to the Manjaca camp. During the witness time at Manjaca, the camp received hundreds of inmates from various areas of Bosnia including a group of 1,200 Muslims from the Omarska area on the evening on July 19. The next morning, as the captives were unloaded for processing, Serbian guards attacked and killed 24 of the Muslims with knives. One of those attacked was a prominent 60-year-old businessmen from Prijedor.

On July 29, a high-ranking member of the Bosnian Muslim party was also beaten to death by guards. (Department of State)

(7) May-August 92:

A 32-year-old male Bosnian Muslim from the village of Kozarusa, near Trnopolje, gave a report on his incarceration at the Keraterm and Omarska facilities.

Following a 2-day Serbian shelling of his village commencing May 20, he and the other 200 male inhabitants were rounded up by Serbs, packed into buses, and taken to detention camps including Keraterm, Omarska, and Trnopolje. Women and children were bused to Trnopolje, Zenica, and finally Croatia.

The witness said that those taken to Keraterm were packed so tightly into a building they could not lie down. During their 2-day stay, they received neither food nor water. On or about May 23, the Serbs emptied Keraterm and bused about 300 captives to Omarska.

At Omarska, a Bosnian Serbian army officer on several occasions conducted interrogation of prisoners accompanied by beatings. The witness identified a taxi driver from Prijedor as the most vicious guard. During the initial period two old men died after being beaten. Other prisoners were taken out nightly and shot by executioners who wore stocking caps to avoid recognition. Many prisoners also starved to death at Omarska.

The witness said that on June 25 about 100 inmates were transferred to Trnopolje. Other beatings and killings continued at Trnopolje. The witness estimated that 50 to 60 prisoners died at this facility every day. (Department of State)

(8) May-August 92:

A 44-year-old Bosnian Muslim from Prijedor, Bosnia, gave the following report based on his personal experience as an inmate, at the Keraterm prisoner camp, from May to August 1992.

Keraterm camp was commanded by a 32-year-old Serbian male from Prijedor who had previously been employed at the Celuloz Paper Mill.

The guard who first checked arriving prisoners at the camp was almost always a brutal 22-year-old man known only as "the cook" because of his previous occupation at a restaurant in the Sarajevo Agricultural Bank building in Prijedor. He routinely stripped incoming prisoners of their jewelry and money beating them with metal pipes or thick wooden sticks, often breaking bones. He also personally participated in the mass execution of nearly 400 men in the prisoner's courtyard in the early morning hours of July 19, 1992.

Also notorious for his brutality in the greater Prijedor area and the most-feared man at the Keraterm was a taxi cab driver who drove a beige colored Polish PZ125 taxi with Prijedor registration. Though not assigned to Keraterm prison, he freely participated in beatings, shootings, and the fatal torture of prisoners from the day Keraterm opened until its closure. (Department of State)

(9) 28 May-26 July 92:

A 60-year old Muslim farmer from Modrica, in northern Bosnia, described the looting and burning of all non-Serbian properties in the village. The Catholic church was demolished by tanks and the over-500-year-old mosque was dynamited.

There were also three mass killings perpetrated by Bosnian Serbs, the first of which occurred about 100-200 meters from the power/transformer station. The victims were buried at the site by a bulldozer. The second mass killing took place near a second power line and transformer station, where the victims also were buried at the site. The third mass killing was performed behind the "Sutjesk" Junior High School on the Serbian side of Modrica. Again, the victims were buried at the site. (Department of State)

(10) 22 July 92:

A 31-year-old Bosnian Croatian from Teslic, Slatina, witnessed drunken Bosnian Serb militiamen beat to death about 50 Muslim and Croatian prisoners in a local stadium on or about July 22, 1992.

Four or five soldiers, wearing red berets and green uniforms and from the so-called Crveni Barek militia group picked up the witness and his friend, Anto Bavic, on July 12 in Teslic. Both he and his friend, whose names were on the soldiers' list, were taken to a large, local government house called Stara Opstina, where all the rooms and the cellar were packed with Croatian and Muslim prisoners.

The witness described several beatings he received at this site, as well as forced labor. On July 14, he and his fellow prisoners were transferred to a local stadium.

On the morning of July 22, a group of about 25 drunken Serb soldiers arrived at the stadium. The Muslim and Croatian prisoners were lined up as usual. At about 6 am, the soldiers began calling names from a list. One by one, the respondents went forward, and were beaten and stabbed to death by as many as 10 Serbs at a time.

About 50 prisoners were killed by soldiers who over a period of 2 to 3 hours took turns drinking and murdering. Many of the victims, including 16-year-old Grgic Slavko, were mutilated with spikes, but the killers used anything they could lay their hands on.

The witness's friend, Anto Bavic, was machine-gunned to death when he refused to step forward and be butchered. Mrgan Grfic, aged 37 was beaten to death with a baseball bat, and 27-year-old Jozo Gabic's right eye was removed with a knife before his throat was cut. The witness was able to escape in August, though not without being shot in the leg by guards trying to stop him. (Department of State)

(11) July 92:

A 48-year-old Muslim from Sanica Donja, near Kljuc, witnessed the occupation and shelling of that town and the decapitation of about 100 prisoners in Tomina.

Following a siege of about 1 month and an initial occupation of Sanica Donja, regular Yugoslav National Army [JNA] troops again re-entered the village on about July 3, 1992. Starting at one end of the village and going from house to house, they took all the men hostage and used them as a human screen as they went through the village.

The witness believes these JNA forces were from the Sixth Krajina Brigade headquartered at Palanka. They were local Bosnian Serbs and their regular JNA uniforms bore a Yugoslav flag on shoulder and hat. A red ribbon was displayed on the pocket.

The roughly 32 men who were taken prisoner, including the witness, were marched to the nearby village of Jerzerce, where they were loaded into canvas-covered truck and transported to Sanski Most. At around noon the truck stopped at the Ojedinstvo school in Tomina; the rear canvas was lifted and the prisoners could see the square in front of the school.

Two livestock transport trucks were parked on the square. Male prisoners were brought out of the school three at a time by soldiers and were walked over to three other soldiers near the trucks. These soldiers laid the prisoners down and cut off their heads with a curved knife about 30 centimeters long. Four men in civilian clothes, apparently prisoners, then loaded the heads onto one truck and the decapitated corpses into the other. During the hour the prisoners' truck was parked in the square, about 100 prisoners were brought out of school and decapitated.

From Tomina the prisoners were driven to the municipal gymnasium at Sanski Most, where they remained 11 days without food. During this time two prisoners were taken each night to the police station for individual interrogation. During the witness' interrogation, two policemen alternately asked questions and beat him with shovel handles, hit him in the stomach, and kicked him when he fell.

On about July 14, four large livestock transport trucks with trailers moved all the prisoners from Sanski Most to Manjaca. Because of malnutrition and dehydration, combined with the extreme heat in the trucks, about 18 people died before reaching Manjaca.

Upon arrival at Manjaca the group of prisoners were addressed by the camp commandant, a lieutenant colonel in the regular JNA, with a husky build and white hair; from his dialect he appeared to the witness to be a Macedonian. He wore no insignia indicating branch of service. Apparently as an example to the prisoners, four soldiers brought two men to the front and beat them with ax handles.

Each morning at about 6 am guards came through the stables where the prisoners were housed, randomly beating them. Every night two to five prisoners were taken by the guards for interrogation. Those called were mostly wealthy people and intellectuals; at least two of them died as a result of their beatings. One pharmacist returned with broken ribs. (Department of State)

(12) 22 June 92:

A 24-year-old Muslim housewife from Agici said that on June 22, 1992, at approximately 7 PM, a group of about 50 Serbians form the village, which is some 4 kilometers from the Japra River, forced their Muslim neighbors out of their home.

The Muslims were marched to a graveyard about 1 kilometer from the village in the direction of the Japra valley where the men were separated from the women and children. There the Serbs began beating and taunting some of the Muslims; they shot and killed one Muslim 28-year-old man, Fadil Ekic. Around midnight, two farm tractors with trailers were brought to the graveyard and transported the women and children to Urije Street in Bosanski Novi. There they were taken out of the trailers and ordered to turn over their valuables on threat of death. After the vehicles left, the group appealed to residents for housing and were taken in. They stayed in Bosanski Novi for 1 month before departing for Karlovac and eventual safety in another country. The 25 men who remained at the graveyard and two Muslim men who had been made to drive the tractors transporting the women and children to Bosanski Novi were never seen again. A Serbian backhoe operator later told the women that he had been sent to the graveyard to bury the bodies of the men, who had been killed after first being forced to dig their own graves with their bare hands. (Department of State)

(13) 28 April-15 May 92:

A 58-year-old Muslim male from Blagaj Japra made the following report:

On April 28, 1992, Bosnian Serb forces took about 12,000 Bosnian Muslim men, women, and children from the surrounding area to Blagaj Japra near Bosanski Novi. Two hundred Muslim men whose names appeared on a list of those whose sons and brothers had joined the fighting against Bosnian Serbian forces, were taken to an open field next to the Alici school building, where they were lined up and executed by fire from automatic weapons. The order for execution was given by a Bosnian Serb from Rakovac, Bosnia. Some of the irregular soldiers who carried out the massacre were local Bosnian Serbs identified by the witness. The Bosnian Serb forces subsequently withdrew to positions in the nearby hills encircling the town where for 5 days they periodically fired at the village with heavy weapons and machine guns. The numbers of dead and wounded were not known, but all buildings in the village were heavily damaged.

On May 12, the Bosnian Serb forces reentered the village and took the survivors across the Sana River for transport by cargo train. At no time on the train did they receive the food or water. The train then went to Banja Luka where it remained for two days before departing for Stanari on the morning of May 15. At Stanari women, children, and men over 60 were taken off and sent to Croatian-held Doboj on foot.

Those men remaining on the train were taken back to Bosanski Novi, where the stadium had been turned into a detention camp. The witness said that food provided to the prisoners consisted only of soup given once a day. Prisoners were also tortured during interrogation at the nearby hotel; some prisoners taken for interrogation never returned. (Department of State)

(14) 30 April 92:

During the assault by Serbian forces on the region of Foca, a 50-year-old male Bosnian Muslim from the village of Odzak witnessed 24 fellow villagers killed as they stood begging for mercy. Their bodies were then thrown into nearby cisterns located at an unfinished airfield. (Department of State)

(15) 6 April 92:

A 43-year-old Bosnian Muslim witnessed murders by Bosnian Serb militiamen. On April 6, the witness fled Divic in the hope of finding greater security at Hasim Hadziavdic's home in Zvornik, a few miles to the north. When Bosnian Serb militiamen arrived there as well, he ran into the woods behind Hasim's home, after failing to convince Hasim to flee with him. Hasim felt he had to stay because his wife was disabled and could not have kept up.

At about 4 PM, from a hiding place behind a nearby shed in the woods, he saw a group of Arkan's soldiers approached Hasim's house. He recognized one of them as a local "secret policeman." The police, carrying a list, went into the house and came out with Hasim and a 74-year-old neighbor.

The witness was close enough to hear the police demand to know where Hasim hid his money. In the middle of the discussion, shooting started inside the house. Moments later, Hasim's wife was brought out, bleeding from her head, nude from her waist up. She was dragged past her husband, the neighbor, and the interrogators and into a waiting car.

The Serb police continued questioning Hasim, now demanding to know where Hasim and other local Muslims were hiding their guns. When Hasim pleaded "Where should I get guns from," the police abandoned the interrogation and ordered a Serb soldier at his side to "slaughter him." The nearby soldier grabbed Hasim by the mouth, yanked his head back, pulled out a large knife, and cut Hasim's throat open. The elderly neighbor fainted immediately. The same soldiers stepped on the old man's chest and slit his throat too.

The police and his accomplice moved to the next house, which was already being searched by other members of Arkan's militia. Sehic Halija, an old man sick with cancer, was waiting outside along with his son. Hakija tried showing his medicine as proof of his illness, but the same soldier who had just murdered the two men next door similarly cut the throats of Hakija and his son. The witness said that 46 people were killed during that one hour by Arkan's men. (Department of State)

(16) June-July 91:

A 54-year-old Bosnian Muslim female resident of village of Zecovi, near Prijedor, gave the following report based on her experience in that village:

On June 23, 1991, all males in Zecovi aged 16 or older were rounded up. Some were killed on the spot while others were taken to unknown locations. She identified the local Serbs responsible for the roundup and killings (and later those of their wives and children) and the looting and destruction of their victimsÕ property. (Department of State)