To know where he lies : DNA technology and the search for Srebrenica's missing / Sarah E. Wagner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wagner, Sarah E., 1972-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Yugoslav War, 1991-1995--Atrocities--Bosnia and Herzegovina--Srebrenica.

Yugoslav War, 1991-1995.

Missing persons--Bosnia and Herzegovina--Srebrenica.

Missing persons.

Bosnia and Herzegovina--Srebrenica.

DNA fingerprinting--Bosnia and Herzegovina--Srebrenica.

DNA fingerprinting.

Physical Description:

xvii, 330 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2008]

Summary:

In the aftermath of the 1992-95 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 (or, Bosniak) men and boys found in those graves and elsewhere, demonstrating how memory, imagination, and science can come together to recover identities lost to genocide. In documenting how the cutting-edge application of DNA testing was developed to identify Srebrenica's missing, Sarah E. Wagner explores the import of this technology across several areas of postwar Bosnian society-for the families of the missing, the Srebrenica community, and the Bosnian political leadership (both Serb and Muslim), as well as for international aims of social repair-probing the meaning of absence itself.

Contents:

Map of Bosnia and Herzegovina xix

1 The Fall of Srebrenica 21

2 The People and Place of Postwar Srebrenica 58

3 A Technological Innovation 82

4 Memory at Work 123

5 Where Memory and Imagination Meet 151

6 Return to Potocari 185

7 'That you see, that you know, that you remember' 213

8 Technology of Repair 245.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-319) and index.

ISBN:

9780520255746

0520255747

0520255755

9780520255753

OCLC:

225871977