Working in the killing fields : forensic science in Bosnia /

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While the specifics of individual wars vary, they share a common epilogue: the task of finding and identifying the "disappeared." The Bosnian war of the early 1990s, which destroyed the sovereign state of Yugoslavia, is no exception. In Working in the Killing Fields, Howard Ball focuses on...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ball, Howard, 1937-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lincoln : Potomac Books, [2015]
Subjects:
Since 1991
Forensic sciences > Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Disappeared persons > Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Dead > Identification.
Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 > Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Genocide > Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Criminalistique > Bosnie-Herzégovine.
Personnes disparues > Bosnie-Herzégovine.
Morts > Identification.
Guerre dans l'ex-Yougoslavie, 1991-1995 > Bosnie-Herzégovine.
HISTORY > Europe > General.
Dead > Identification
Disappeared persons
Forensic sciences
Genocide
Bosnia and Herzegovina > History > 1992-
Bosnia and Herzegovina
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Epigraph
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: On the Bank of the River Drina, May 10, 2003
  • Abbreviations
  • 1. The “Disappearedâ€? in War and the Need to Find and Identify Them
  • 2. Balkan Nationalism, the Creation and the Collapse of Yugoslavia, and “Ethnic Cleansingâ€?
  • 3. Finding, Exhuming, and Identifying the Human Remains in Bosnia
  • 4. The Forensic Scientists at Work in Bosniaâ€?s “Killing Fieldsâ€?
  • 5. The Stark Realities Confronting the Searchers and the Survivors in BosniaNotes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About Howard Ball

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