07/08/2025
"From Darkness to Dawn: A True Story of Perseverance in the 'Herzeg-Bosnia' Concentration Camps" by Ramiz Tiro
Tiro was an ordinary Bosniak man from Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, when he was taken away from his apartment to Bosnian Croats’ “Herzeg-Bosna” concentration camp in Dretelj. He was held there along with thousands of other Bosniak civilians for days before he was transferred to other Croat-run concentration camps throughout the region of Herzegovina under Croatian control.
The author vividly describes conditions in the prisoner camps of Dretelj, Heliodrom, Vojno, Central Prison, Basement of Technical College in Mostar, and other smaller private prisons, as well as how Bosniak people of the region were treated by the Croatian forces and their Croat neighbors. This book is based on the author’s personal experiences in those camps which he was taken to on July 1st, 1993, and then held in for 262 days as a captive, before he was finally released without any remorse by the captors. During the imprisonment Ramiz Tiro was tortured, humiliated, made to work unprotected at the front line, used as a human shield, and almost murdered. He survived and wrote his book to testify about the Croat forces brutality against their former neighbors. .
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Description: Ramiz Tiro was an ordinary Bosniak man from Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, when he was taken away from his apartment to Bosnian Croats’ “Herzeg-Bosna” concentration camp in Dretelj. He was held there along with thousands of other Bosniak civilians for days before he was transferr...