Jan (Poland) at the monument comemmorating the victims of the war in Kozerac. Kozarac now has two public swimming pools, 14 mosques, one church, a shopping mall, plus many restaurants and bars. Every summer in Kozarac, famous musicians from across the whole of former Yugoslavia perform, and around 15,000 people who are from Kozarac but are living abroad, come back to Kozarac to spend their summer there.

DAY 79

14.3.2017 Kozarac - Piskavica, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Going across Bosnia and Herzegovina countryside we met dozens of friendly people. They wanted to talk, greeted us, gave us small gifts all the time. Some even gave as a ride with their tractor. Short after leaving Kozarac we reached Trnopolje. It was a place where a concentration camp was placed in the Jugoslavia domestic war. There is not a sigle sign about it on place, but we had quite a story told by the locals. We had a launch break in beautiful Omarska. In the afternoon we reached Piskavica where we had an accommodation in a bar. Marchers: 20. Route 26 km. GPS Tracking: https://www.endomondo.com/users/13828223/workouts/887391249

CMFA group at the monument comemmorating the victims of the war in Kozerac.
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Jan (Poland) at the monument comemmorating the victims of the war in Kozerac. Kozarac now has two public swimming pools, 14 mosques, one church, a shopping mall, plus many restaurants and bars. Every summer in Kozarac, famous musicians from across the whole of former Yugoslavia perform, and around 15,000 people who are from Kozarac but are living abroad, come back to Kozarac to spend their summer there.
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Passing a mosque and the cemetery.
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Marching the route from Kozarac to Piskavica, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Entering Trnopolije.
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An unexpected gift from a local man; Trnopolje. People in Bosnia were extremely nice, helpful and hospitable.
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The group stopped in the place were the Trnopolje camp placed. It was a concentration camp established by Bosnian Serb military and police authorities during the first months of the Bosnian War. Also variously termed a detainment camp, detention camp, prison, and ghetto, Trnopolje held between 4,000 and 7,000 Bosniak and Bosnian Croat inmates at any one time and served as a staging area for mass deportations, mainly of women, children, and elderly men. Between May and November 1992, an estimated 30,000 inmates passed through. Mistreatment was widespread and there were numerous instances of torture, rape, and killing; ninety inmates died.
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Short break in Trnopolje. There is no sign, nor a commemoration of the camp. We wouldnt recognize the place unless the stories of local people.
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Clara (Austria). Spring sun started to be strong.
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Short break in Trnopolje. There is no sign, nor a commemoration of the camp. We wouldnt recognize the place unless the stories of local people.
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Group photo in Trnopolje.
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Ryszard (Poland) taking a photo of a monument commemorating Serb soldiers who died to fight in the Balkan war. There is no sign, nor a commemoration of the camp founded by them.
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Marching near Kamicani.
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Marching throough Kamicani.
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Me, behind Crkva Svetog cara Lazara, Vuka Karadžića, Omarska.
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Ahmad (Syria) during the launch break in Omarska.
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Marching to Piskavica.
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Marching to Piskavica.
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Usually the march was only moving by walking. On of the not many moments we moved by hitchhiking.
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Ahmad (Syria), Kaja and Denis (Germany).
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Usually the march was only moving by walking. On of the not many moments we moved by hitchhiking.
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Kaja (Germany) marching to Piskavica, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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The group posing with friendly locals, Piskavica.
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Ahmad (Syria) on the way to Piskavica. The police guided us locally, there were many muddy roads that were very hard to cross. They saved us a lot of effort.
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Many people greeted us on the way; Piskavica, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Pablo (Austria) , Piskavica, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Ismahan (France) and Leoni (Germany); Piskavica, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Meeting in Piskavica, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Ahmad (Syria), meeting in Piskavica, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Claire (Switzerland), Piskavica, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Jan, Olga (Poland), Alex (Germany). Piskavica, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Antoine (France), Leoni (Germany), Antoine (France).
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Piskavica, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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