the camp in question was not Omarska, it was in Trnopolje.
On 6 August 1992, the international media broadcast pictures of a supposed Bosnian Serb death camp for Muslim prisoners of war. These pictures were taken from footage shot 5 August at a facility in the Bosnian town of Trnopolje (pronounced turn-OP-ul-yay). The film crew from the British news station, ITN, was led by reporter Penny Marshall, and accompanied by reporters Ian Williams and Ed Vulliamy.
Unfortunately for ITN, there is a hard record of what their film crew actually saw in Bosnia on 5 August 1992. That's because Serbian Television (RTS) covered the visit. An RTS crew followed ITN as they inspected a detention center in the town of Omarska and a refugee center at Trnopolje (pronounced turn-OP-ul-yay.), where the supposed death camp footage was shot. So RTS filmed the same things ITN filmed and sometimes filmed the ITN reporters as well. Based on this RTS footage, Emperor’s Clothes produced a movie which proves that ITN did not film a death camp. Rather, pictures of the refuge center at Trnopolje were doctored and misrepresented to create the illusion of a concentration camp.
http://emperors-clothes.com/villainy.htm
Here is some video footage from the scene on the "death camp" fence:
and this is Fikret Alic, the thin man in the picture, explaining 18 years later what had happened to him in the summer of 1992:
He was in Trnopolje from August 5th to August 14th (9 days) and escaped from this "death camp" by simply dressing up as a woman (no further explanation is given). Before he was in Trnopolje, he was in another camp, Keraterm, starting July 14th, he says. On May 23rd he had been dismissed from work and told to never return. From then on he was living out in the forests for several weeks until he was arrested and apparently mistreated in Keraterm. The tale comes across a little confusing - he says he was beaten up for 60 days, by his neighbor(?), among others(?), yet his days in the camps between July 14th and August 14th only amount to 31 days if I am counting correctly. Somewhere along the line he caught a disease, "abdominal gangrene" and couldn't hold his stool, which may have contributed to his emaciated appearance in the infamous picture.
So, the jurors were not convinced that ITN DELIBERATELY falsified their report to convey the impression that Trnopolje was a "death camp" in a supposed "holocaust" of Bosnian Muslims. Okay, perhaps they thought that doctoring pictures and showing a sick man behind barbed wire instead of realistic impressions of the scene was only normal, given that Serbs were monsters and Milosevic the new Hitler.
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