A few months of torture,

A few months of torture, almost no food, no water, in conditions of horrible filth and stench. Serb Vinko Lale recalls the Bosnian captivity he endured 30 years ago. He was liberated in late 1992. By then, he weighed only 46 kilograms.

Vinko was captured when the national conflict between Bosnians and Serbs broke out in Sarajevo. The Bosnians declared jihad (holy war). They cut off the heads of their former Serb neighbours, raped women, burned their houses. Vinko did not manage to escape as the roads were already blocked. He was captured and thrown into a former grain silo. About 700 other Serb prisoners were imprisoned there with him. The man's story is in our video and documentary ‘