Bosniaks and Croats from Prijedor are missing or were killed during the massacre period, and around 14,000 people in the wider region of Prijedor (Pounje).
Prijedor was also a place where mass war rape and executions of Bosniaks, Bosnian Croats and non-cooperative Bosnian Serbs were carried out by Radovan Karadzic's Bosnian Serb army. A high-ranking Bosnian Serb politician, Milomir Stakić, was found guilty by the ICTY and sentenced to 40 years for war crimes conducted by Serb authorities in Prijedor in 1992.
On 21 December 2010 Zoran Babić, Milorad Škrbić, Dušan Janković and Željko Stojnić, all employed as public security officers in Prijedor during the war, were found guilty and sentenced to 86 years imprisonment on charges of war crimes against 150 Bosniak and Croat civilians at the Korićani Cliffs massacre during the war.
About the failure of Bosnian government forces to capture Prijedor during the closing stages of the war and the town's inclusion in the Republika Srpska, Richard Holbrooke wrote:
The fighting in western Bosnia intensified as the cease-fire approached. [...] Facing the end of the fighting, the Croats and the Bosnians finally buried their differences, if only momentarily, and took Sanski Mostand several other smaller towns. But Prijedor still eluded them. For reasons we never fully understood, they did not capture this important town, a famous symbol of ethnic cleansing. (In March 1997, I attended a showing at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York of a powerful documentary film, Calling the ghosts, that recounted the brutal treatment two Bosnian women from Prijedor had suffered during their incarceration at the notorious Omarska prison camp. Following the film, the two women angrily asked me why they were still unable to return to their hometown. I told them we'd repeatedly encouraged an assault on Prijedor. They were astonished; they said General Dudaković, the Bosnian commander, had told them
