Description: Half a century after the Holocaust, on European soil, Bosnian Serbs orchestrated a system of concentration camps where they subjected their Bosniak Muslim and Bosnian Croat neighbors to torture, abuse, and killing. Foreign journalists exposed the horrors of the camps in the summer of 1992, sparking worldwide outrage. This exposure, however, did not stop the mass atrocities. Hikmet Kar?i? shows that the use of camps and detention facilities has been a ubiquitous practice in countless wars and genocides in order to achieve the wartime objectives of perpetrators. Although camps have been used for different strategic purposes, their essential functions are always the same: to inflict torture and lasting trauma on the victims.Torture, Humiliate, Kill develops the author's collective traumatization theory, which contends that the concentration camps set up by the Bosnian Serb authorities had the primary purpose of inflicting collective trauma on the non-Serb population of Bosnia and Herzegovina. This collective traumatization consisted of excessive use of torture, sexual abuse, humiliation, and killing. The physical and psychological suffering imposed by these methods were seen as a quick and efficient means to establish the Serb "living space." Kar?i? argues that this trauma was deliberately intended to deter non-Serbs from ever returning to their pre-war homes. The book centers on multiple examples of experiences at concentration camps in four towns operated by Bosnian Serbs during the war: Prijedor, Bijeljina, Visegrad, and Bile?a. Chosen according to their political and geographical position, Kar?i? demonstrates that these camps were used as tools for the ethno-religious genocidal campaign against non-Serbs. Torture, Humiliate, Kill is a thorough and definitive resource for understanding the function and operation of camps during the Bosnian genocide.
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EAN: 9780472039043
UPC: 9780472039043
ISBN: 9780472039043
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Book Title: Torture, Humiliate, Kill: Inside the Bosnian Serb
Number of Pages: 280 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Torture, Humiliate, Kill : inside the Bosnian Serb Camp System
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Item Height: 0.6 in
Publication Year: 2022
Subject: Europe / Eastern, Genocide & War Crimes, Human Rights
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 23.5 Oz
Author: Hikmet Karcic
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Political Science, History
Series: Ethnic Conflict: Studies in Nationality, Race, and Culture Ser.
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
