Trnopolje was described variously as a ghetto , a prison and a detention camp . A United Nations ( UN ) report from 1994 reported that Trnopolje was a concentration camp which functioned as a staging area for mass deportations mainly of women , children , and elderly men . The reported found that : Refugees reported that Trnopolje was a " decent " camp in comparison to Omarska and Keraterm as there were no systematic killings , only arbitrary ones . Indeed , many non-Serbs entered the camp voluntarily , " simply to avoid the rampaging militias plundering their streets and villages " . This phenomenon led British journalist Ed Vulliamy to describe Trnopolje as " a perverse haven " for the Bosniaks and Croats of Prijedor . Author Hariz Halilovich writes : Many inmates were starved and physically or verbally abused during their imprisonment . By August 1992 , Trnopolje held about 3,500 people . On 7 August 1992 , reporters from Independent Television News ( ITN ) , a British television station , took footage of the prisoners at Omarska and Trnopolje , and recorded their living conditions . The images were shown around the world and caused public outrage . This prompted the Bosnian Serb authorities to allow journalists and the International Red Cross ( IRC ) access to some of the Prijedor camps , but not before the most emaciated of the prisoners were killed or shipped off to camps far from the public eye . Some 200 former male inmates were separated and killed in the Korićani Cliffs massacre on 21 August 1992 . The publicity generated by the discovery of the Prijedor camps led to their closure by the end of August . In mid-August , Trnopolje was placed into the hands of the IRC . The camp was officially shut down that November
Korićani Cliffs massacre
Korićani Cliffs massacre
Trnopolje camp