Surviving the Bosnian Genocide: The Women of Srebrenica Speak by Selma Leydesdorff; Kay Richardson (Translator)In July 1995, the Army of the Serbian Republic killed some 8,000 Bosnian men and boys in and around the town of Srebrenica--the largest mass murder in Europe since World War II. Surviving the Bosnian Genocide is based on the testimonies of 60 female survivors of the massacre who were interviewed by Dutch historian Selma Leydesdorff. The women, many of whom still live in refugee camps, talk about their lives before the Bosnian war, the events of the massacre, and the ways they have tried to cope with their fate.
Genocide on the Drina River by Edina BecirevicIn this scholarly yet intensely personal history, author Edina Becirevic explores the widespread ethnic cleansing that occurred in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1992 through 1995, war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by Serbs against Bosnian Muslims that fully meet the criteria for genocide established after World War II by the Genocide Convention of 1948. An in-depth study of the devastating and dehumanizing effects of genocide on individual destinies and the mechanisms of its denial in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Becirevic’s essential history contextualizes the East Bosnian program of atrocities with respect to broader scholarly debates about the nature of genocide.
The Bosnian People Charge Genocide by Francis A. Boyle; Marshall Harris (Introduction by); Fran McCloskey (Foreword by)"Francis A. Boyle is Professor of International Law at the University of Illinois College of Law in Champaign. On March 19, 1993, President Alija Izetbegovic of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina appointed him as Bosnia's General Agent before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) with Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Powers to institute, conduct, and defend against any and all litigation on behalf of Bosnia." "He then proceeded to win World Court Orders - on April 8, 1993, and September 13, 1993 - that supported Bosnia's case against the rump Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) to cease and desist from violating the 1948 Genocide Convention." "Pursuant to Boyle's recommendation, on November 15, 1993, President Izetbegovic instructed him to institute legal proceedings at the ICJ against the United Kingdom for violating the 1948 Genocide Convention and the 1965 Racial Discrimination Convention in order to break the arms embargo against Bosnia, as well as to stop the racist carve up of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina by the Contact Group Plan." "This volume documents the legal efforts by Professor Boyle to save the people of Bosnia and Herzegovina from the crime of genocide."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved