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Crime – Negation of Human Dignity
Crime – Negation of Human Dignity

Author(s): Ermin Kuka
Subject(s): Military history, Criminology, Studies in violence and power, Nationalism Studies, Victimology, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: JU Zavod za zaštitu i korištenje kulturno-historijskog i prirodnog naslijeđa
Keywords: crime; Bosniaks; Nikola Jorgić; Milan Lukić; Goran Jelisić; genocide;

Summary/Abstract: During the aggression against the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the period from 1992 to 1995, numerous, mass and individual, crimes against humanity and international law were committed, including the crime of genocide in all occupied places and cities under siege. The commission of the crime was preceded by detailed and systematically organized and planned activities, all with the aim of creating ethnically pure Serbian territories and implementing the idea of creating the so-called Greater Serbia. A large number of criminals took part in committing crimes against Bosniaks. However, in committing the crime, individuals stood out from the rest. They stood out for the manner, methods, techniques, monstrosity of the crimes committed, which they committed either alone or with the support of their companions and helpers. Nikola Jorgić in Doboj, Milan Lukić in Višegrad and Goran Jelisić in Brčko stood out for that. An analysis of their (mis)deeds and the crimes they committed will show all the cruelty, monstrosity and inhumanity of their treatment of the victims. The analysis will be done through the prism of the influence of three factors: ideology, spatial distance and sadism. In this context, the method of analysis (content) of documents, comparative method and case study method will be used for research purposes. It can be concluded that the pattern of commission of the crimes they applied, although they were not interrelated or cooperated with each other, was identical.

  • Issue Year: 9/2020
  • Issue No: 9
  • Page Range: 37-55
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: English