Logori i prakse u logorima kao sastavni dio strategije etničkog čišćenja: moralni napad na žrtve
Detention/Concentration Camps as Part of Ethnic Cleansing: Attack on the Moral Front

Summary/Abstract: The article aims to provide answers to two questions related to the existence of detention/concentration camps as part of ethnic cleansing. The first is the general purpose of detention/concentration camps as an integral part of Serb ethnic cleansing campaign in former Yugoslavia; the second question is related to the purpose of detention camps in the more immediate, operational sense of ethnic cleansing. It shows that detention operation was instrumental part of the ethnic cleansing campaign and that its purpose was two-fold: on the one hand, the practices in camps are designed to attack on the victims on the moral front while on the other its more immediate and action oriented concern was to physically remove elements of the population who were symbolic or emblematic of it from the rest and to eliminate them. The article demonstrates a. the existence of a network of camps which even if not fully integrated and operating under centralized control, still functioned across the borders of different Serb entities; b. systematic and widespread abuse and torture as part of daily operations of camps; and c. killing as integral but distinct and separate practice within the detention operation.

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