The Bosnian Book of the Dead

In January 2013, the Research and Documentation Center in Sarajevo[a] published its final research on Bosnia-Herzegovina's war casualties, titled The Bosnian Book of the Dead.

Overview

The research was summarized in a database that included 97,207 confirmed names of Bosnia and Herzegovina's citizens, killed during the 1992–1995 war, with an additional 5,100 unconfirmed names.[1] An international team of experts evaluated the findings before they were released. Ewa Tabeu, the head of the ICTY[b] Demographic Unit, called it "the largest existing database on Bosnian war victims".[2][3]

Confirmed casualties

Of the 97,207 casualties documented by 2013:[4]

  • 60% were soldiers, 40% civilians
  • 90% were male
  • 62% were Bosniaks, 25% Bosnian Serbs, and just over 8% Croats
  • Of civilian victims, 82% were Bosniaks, 10% Bosnian Serbs, and 6.5% Bosnian Croats, with a small number of Jews, Roma and others.[3][5]

The percentage of civilian victims would probably have been higher had survivors not reported their loved-ones as "soldiers" to access social services and other post-mortem benefits.[6]

Exhumations in Srebrenica, 1996.
An exhumed mass grave in Potocari, Bosnia and Herzegovina, where key events in the July 1995 Srebrenica Massacre unfolded. July 2007.
Skull of a victim of the Srebrenica massacre (July 1995), with a bullet entry point in the cranium. Exhumed mass grave outside the village of Potocari, Bosnia and Herzegovina. July 2007.
Commemorative stone at the Srebrenica-Potočari Memorial Center in Bosnia.

Notelist

  1. ↑ Bosnian: Istraživačko dokumentacioni centar Sarajevo
  2. ↑ The acronym for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.

References

  1. ↑ "After years of toil, book names Bosnian war dead". Reuters. 2013-02-15.
  2. ↑ "Bosnia war dead figure announced". BBC News. 2007-06-21.
  3. 1 2 Research and Documentation Center: Rezultati istraživanja "Ljudski gubici '91–'95" Archived 2010-12-03 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ↑ "Research shows estimates of Bosnian war death toll were inflated". International Herald Tribune. June 21, 2007. Retrieved 2008-10-02.
  5. ↑ Lara J. Nettelfield (2010). Courting Democracy in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521763806. Retrieved July 22, 2013., pp. 96–98
  6. ↑ Patrick Ball, Ewa Tabeau and Philip Verwimp (June 17, 2007). "The Bosnian Book of Dead: Assessment of the Database" (PDF). Households in Conflict Network. p. 5. Retrieved 16 May 2015.
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