Three weeks later Roy Gutman of Newsweek visited Serb-run camps and heard eyewitness accounts of murders and atrocities.

Hasan, who said he was held in four of the Serb-run camps, said the worst was in Omarska.

The first batch of evidence, which relates to atrocities reportedly committed in several Serb-run camps and in one Bosnian-run camp in the Prijedor and Brcko areas, includes a diagram of the staff at Omarska, a Serb-run camp where hundreds of Bosnians are believed to have perished.

Yesterday she was visibly shocked by the conditions she witnessed in the Serb-run camps.

The European Community under Britain's presidency said the Serb-run camps were 'repulsive and despicable.'

Describing himself as having suffered abuse in a Serb-run camp, he said tens of thousands had suffered similarly.

The Essex airport has already seen four flights bringing ex-detainees of the Serb-run camps and their families into Britain.

Non-Serbs were subjected to "almost every conceivable form of torture, humiliation and killing," it said, including the deliberate disfigurement and the excision of body parts of prisoners in Serb-run camps.

The women's group Tresnjevka claimed that more than 35,000 women and children were held in such Serb-run camps.

The United Nations Human Rights Commission, meeting in emergency session in Geneva today, also heard an account of atrocities taking place in Serb-run camps from Bosnia's Vice President, Ejup Ganic.