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Žrtve zločina opsade Sarajeva 1992–1996.
Crimes Victims of the Siege of Sarajevo

Author(s): Muhamed Šestanović
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Naučnoistraživački institut »Ibn Sina«
Keywords: aggression; siege; crime; Sarajevo

Summary/Abstract: Institute for research of Crimes against Humanity and International Law of University of Sarajevo is process of preparing one of the most extensive scientific-empirical studies related to research of the devastation of Sarajevo during the aggression on the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The volume of the study is about 60000 pages and it should be issued in part during this year in hard copy and electronic form as a unique mark of the centennial anniversary of the beginning of World War I, where the first bullet was fired on the Austro-Hungarian Heir to the Throne in Sarajevo. This Institute has been doing scientific reasearch for the case study for 20 years. Namely, in the second half of 1994, in the most difficult conditions of the aggression on the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina and siege of Sarajevo, Institute for research of Crimes against Humanity and International Law, with many scientific associates, young researchers and household members (de facto citizens) in the siege. Never before, in such or similar war circumstances, has there been such or similar scientific research. Partial results of that research were used in cases against Slobodan Milošević and General Stanislav Galić, for which Institute has been thanked and praised. Alongside documenting the acts of numerous crimes against humanity and international law, including the most terrible described by the international law as genocide, the study will include interesting data on demographic changes in the city of Sarajevo created as a result of the siege. The case study will be made more special, among other things, because it will contain a list of all those with a place of residence in the territory of the siege, lists of all killed, died, wounded, unlawfully detained, forcefully missing and those who were displace or forced to seek refuge. Such results with the lists of victims will be published for the first time in this study. The following text is a review of the study entitled CRIMES VICTIMS OF THE SIEGE OF SARAJEVO.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 64
  • Page Range: 253-271
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Bosnian