Author: Lara J. Nettelfield
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107000467
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 441
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This book traces the reverberations of genocide, forced displacement, and a legacy of loss in Bosnia and abroad.
Author: Selma Leydesdorff
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253356695
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 273
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In July 1995, the Army of the Serbian Republic killed some 8,000 Bosnian men and boys in and around the town of Srebrenica--the largest mass murder in Europe since World War II. Surviving the Bosnian Genocide is based on the testimonies of 60 female survivors of the massacre who were interviewed by Dutch historian Selma Leydesdorff. The women, many of whom still live in refugee camps, talk about their lives before the Bosnian war, the events of the massacre, and the ways they have tried to cope with their fate. Though fragmented by trauma, the women tell of life and survival under extreme conditions, while recalling a time before the war when Muslims, Croats, and Serbs lived together peaceably. By giving them a voice, this book looks beyond the rapes, murders, and atrocities of that dark time to show the agency of these women during and after the war and their fight to uncover the truth of what happened at Srebrenica and why.
Author: Isabelle Delpla
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 0857454722
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 221
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In July 1995, the Bosnian Serb Army commanded by General Ratko Mladic attacked the enclave of Srebrenica, a UN "safe area" since 1993, and massacred about 8,000 Bosniac men. While the responsibility for the massacre itself lays clearly with the Serb political and military leadership, the question of the responsibility of various international organizations and national authorities for the fall of the enclave is still passionately discussed, and has given rise to various rumors and conspiracy theories. Follow-up investigations by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and by several commissions have dissipated most of these rumors and contributed to a better knowledge of the Srebrenica events and the part played by the main local and international actors. This volume represents the first systematic, comparative analysis of those investigations. It brings together analyses from both the external standpoint of academics and the inside perspective of various professionals who participated directly in the inquiries, including police officers, members of parliament, high-ranking civil servants, and other experts. Evaluating how institutions establish facts and ascribe responsibilities, this volume presents a historiographical and epistemological reflection on the very possibility of writing a history of the present time.
Author: Thomas Cushman
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814715354
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 423
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This book punctures once and for all common excuses for Western inaction in the face of incontrovertible evidence of the most egregious crimes against humanity to occur in Europe since World War II.
Author: Patrick McCarthy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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One quarter of a million people lost their lives in that war, and another 2.5 million were displaced as refugees.".
Author: Sarah Wagner
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520942622
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 358
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In the aftermath of the 1992-1995 Bosnian war, the discovery of unmarked mass graves revealed Europe's worst atrocity since World War II: the genocide in the UN "safe area" of Srebrenica. To Know Where He Lies provides a powerful account of the innovative genetic technology developed to identify the eight thousand Bosnian Muslim (Bosniak) men and boys found in those graves and elsewhere, demonstrating how memory, imagination, and science come together to recover identities lost to genocide. Sarah E. Wagner explores technology's import across several areas of postwar Bosnian society—for families of the missing, the Srebrenica community, the Bosnian political leadership (including Serb and Muslim), and international aims of social repair—probing the meaning of absence itself.
Author: Ann Petrila
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476683344
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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In the hills of eastern Bosnia sits the small town of Srebrenica--once known for silver mines and health spas, now infamous for the genocide that occurred there during the Bosnian War. In July 1995, when the town fell to Serbian forces, 12,000 Muslim men and boys fled through the woods, seeking safe territory. Hunted for six days, more than 8000 were captured, killed at execution sites and later buried in mass graves. With harrowing personal narratives by survivors, this book provides eyewitness accounts of the Bosnian genocide, revealing stories of individual trauma, loss and resilience.
Author: Alexander Laban Hinton
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813550688
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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Book Description
"The origins of this project date back to a 2007 symposium, 'Local justice : global mechanisms and local meanings in the aftermath of mass atrocity, ' held at Rutgers University--Newark [N.J.] ... Several participants later presented papers in a session at the July 2007 meeting of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, which was held in Bosnia and Herzegovina."--Acknowledgments.
Author: David Scheffer
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691157847
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 564
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This title is Scheffer's account of the international gamble to prosecute those responsible for genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, and to redress some of the bloodiest human rights atrocities in our time.
Author: Raphael Lemkin
Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN: 1584775769
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 718
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"In this study Polish emigre Raphael Lemkin (1900-1959) coined the term 'genocide' and defined it as a subject of international law"--Provided by publisher.
