Bahrija Jakupovic from Kozarac was 23 years old when he was assigned to a convoy of camp inmates from “Trnopolje” who were going to be exchanged towards Travnik in August 1992. Over 200 of them were killed in the locality of Koricanske stijene.
In the convoy, there were about 1,200 inmates from Prijedor, civilians of non-Serb nationality, escorted by members of the Prijedor Police Intervention Unit. The column was stopped in the Ugra canyon, where Jakupovic and others were taken and shot at the Koricanske stijene site.
Jakupovic survived the shooting and wandered for two days before being caught and eventually exchanged through the Red Cross. He recently visited the place where he survived by luck and paid tribute to those killed there. Citizens also honored the victims with roses and wreaths.
Darko Mrdja, a former member of the Intervention Platoon, was sentenced to 17 years in prison by the Hague Tribunal for the Koricanske stijene massacre.
E.Dz.
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