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1 online resource (xiv, 238 pages) : illustrations |
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Ethnic conflict: Studies in nationality, race, and culture |
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Ethnic conflict: Studies in nationality, race, and culture.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-238) and index. |
Summary |
Half a century after the Holocaust, on European soil, Bosnian Serbs orchestrated a system of concentration camps where they subjected their Bosniak Muslim and Bosnian Croat neighbors to torture, abuse, and killing. Foreign journalists exposed the horrors of the camps in the summer of 1992, sparking worldwide outrage. This exposure, however, did not stop the mass atrocities. Hikmet Kari shows that the use of camps and detention facilities has been a ubiquitous practice in countless wars and genocides in order to achieve the wartime objectives of perpetrators. Although camps have been used for different strategic purposes, their essential functions are always the same: to inflict torture and lasting trauma on the victims.Torture, Humiliate, Kill develops the author's collective traumatization theory, which contends that the concentration camps set up by the Bosnian Serb authorities had the primary purpose of inflicting collective trauma on the non-Serb population of Bosnia and Herzegovina. This collective traumatization consisted of excessive use of torture, sexual abuse, humiliation, and killing. The physical and psychological suffering imposed by these methods were seen as a quick and efficient means to establish the Serb "living space." Kari argues that this trauma was deliberately intended to deter non-Serbs from ever returning to their pre-war homes. The book centers on multiple examples of experiences at concentration camps in four towns operated by Bosnian Serbs during the war: Prijedor, Bijeljina, Viegrad, and Bilea. Chosen according to their political and geographical position, Kari demonstrates that these camps were used as tools for the ethno-religious genocidal campaign against non-Serbs. Torture, Humiliate, Kill is a thorough and definitive resource for understanding the function and operation of camps during the Bosnian genocide. |
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This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 |
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Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Echoes of the Holocaust -- Chapter 1. History of Ethnic Relations in Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Chapter 2. Collective Traumatization -- Chapter 3. Viegrad -- Chapter 4. Prijedor -- Chapter 5. Bijeljina -- Chapter 6. Bilea -- Chapter 7. Conclusions -- References -- Name Index -- Trial Judgments Index -- Subject Index |
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Internment camps -- Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 -- Atrocities -- Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Genocide -- Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Camps d'internement -- Bosnie-Herzégovine.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Atrocities
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Genocide
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Internment camps
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Bosnia and Herzegovina https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJqFMPvKDwqMd8f7v7ttKd
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Yugoslav War (1991-1995) https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39Qhp4vBb7vT3PFPQjWRKbKfy |
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1991-1995
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Added Author |
Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.
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Books at JSTOR: Open Access JSTOR |
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OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) OAPEN |
Other Form: |
Original 0472132962 9780472132966 9780472039043 0472039040 (OCoLC)1247208136 |
ISBN |
0472902717 (open access) |
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9780472902712 (electronic bk.) |
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9780472132966 (hardcover book) |
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0472132962 |
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9780472039043 |
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0472039040 |
Standard No. |
10.3998/mpub.12079875 doi |
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AU@ 000071595705 |
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AU@ 000071582814 |
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