MASS GRAVES IN SARAJEVO AREA 1992 - 1995 Cover Image

MASOVNE GROBNICE NA PODRUČJU SARAJEVA 1992–1995
MASS GRAVES IN SARAJEVO AREA 1992 - 1995

Author(s): Meldijana Arnaut-Haseljić
Subject(s): International Law, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Military history, Studies in violence and power, Victimology, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010)
Published by: Univerzitet u Sarajevu
Keywords: victims; mass graves; crime against humanity and international law; Sarajevo;

Summary/Abstract: During the 1992-1995 Aggression against the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina Various forms of crimes against humanity and international law were been committed, among which the mass killings of civilians are particularly high,followed by the appearance of mass graves as a special form of post crime cover up. Mass graves, difficulties and problems of their discovery, point to systematic planning, organization, execution of crimes, as well as its concealment, destruction of material evidence and denial. All this was done in order to conceal the crimes,and to prevent their identification, as well as identifying the perpetrators and ordergivers.

  • Issue Year: LXIII/2017
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 165-186
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Bosnian