Mass atrocities and the police : a new history of ethnic cleansing in Bosnia and Herzegovina / Christian Axboe Nielsen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nielsen, Christian Axboe, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Yugoslav War, 1991-1995.

Genocide--Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Genocide.

War crimes--Bosnia and Herzegovina.

War crimes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021

Place of Publication:

London [England] : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.

Summary:

Between April 1992 and December 1995, more than 100, 000 people were killed in the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The terrible atrocities committed in this period have been much discussed and studied and many prosecuted as acts of genocide, war crimes or crimes against humanity. But so far, the academic scholarship has focused on the role of the military in these events. This has come at the expense of considering the police's role, which Nielsen here demonstrates as crucial. Nielsen traces the origins of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina to the police and associated paramilitary groups. Nielsen makes this ground-breaking case by drawing on a host of confidential archival sources, academic research and practical experience as a widely cited expert witness in the most notorious of the war crimes tribunals. His innovative new history sheds light on wider issues regarding the dissolution of Yugoslavia, the Balkan wars and the region today.

Contents:

Introduction

Chapter 1. From Elections to War: the Police and the Purposeful Destruction of Bosnia

Chapter 2. The Police and the Forcible Seizure of Power

Chapter 3. Search, Detain, Destroy: Ethnic Cleansing, Expulsions and Police Concentration Camps

Chapter 4. Of Red Berets and Plausible Deniability: Serbia's Support for the RS MUP

Chapter 5. The Police and the Forcible Seizure of Power Epilogue. The Bosnian Serb Police and Negative Peace in Dayton Bosnia

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781350204577

1350204579

9781350204560

1350204560

1-350-20458-7

OCLC:

1290325110