Bosnia

After the tumultuous dissolution of Yugoslavia into independent states in 1991 and 1992, Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic pursued a Serbian state free of non-Serbs, implementing a policy of “ethnic cleansing” within Bosnia. Non-Serb cultural and religious sites were destroyed, Muslim and Croat civilians were forced from their homes and subjected to degrees of degradation intended to completely destroy them, and destroy their sense of Bosnia as home. Thousands of Muslims and Croats were rounded up and sent to concentration camps in northern Bosnia, where they were humiliated, tortured, and many executed. Women were systematically raped at camps built for that express purpose. Approximately 10,000 prisoners died in the Serb-run concentration camps in Bosnia; in 1995, 7,800 men and boys were executed en masse at Srebenica in the worst massacre in Europe since the Holocaust.

Bosnia
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Film

Documentary:

  • A Cry from the Grave, Leslie Woodhead, director, 1999

Fiction:

  • Résolution 819, Giacomo Battiato, 2008

Theatre:

  • Catherine Filloux, Dog and Wolf, New York, 2009

 

Literature

Narrative nonfiction:

  • Roy Gutman, Witness to Genocide: the 1993 Pulitzer Prize-winning dispatches on the ethnic cleansing of Bosnia, Macmillan, New York, 1993
  • Roger Cohen, Hearts Grown Brutal: Sagas of Sarajevo, Random House, New York, 1998
  • Rezak Hukanovic, The Tenth Circle of Hell, Time Warner Books, New York, 1998.
  • Peter Maass, Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War, Vintage Books USA, New York, 1997
  • Christopher Merrill, Only The Nails Remain, Roman & Littlefield, 1999
  • Christopher Merrill, The Old Bridge, Milkweed, 1995
  • Chuck Sudetic, Blood and Vengeance: One Family's Story of the War in Bosnia, W. W. Norton & Co, New York, 1998

Fiction:

  • Slavenka Drakulic, S.: A Novel about the Balkans, Penguin Books, New York, 2001
  • Aleksander Hemon, The Question of Bruno, Vintage Books USA, London, 2001
  • Natasha Radojcic, Homecoming, Random House, New York, 2005