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Contents:

	List of Abbreviations (p. ix)
	List of Figures (p. xi)
	Acknowledgments (p. xiii)
	Introduction: Echoes of the Holocaust (p. 1)
		Echoes of the Holocaust (p. 1)
		Collective Traumatization (p. 5)
		Meso- and Micro-Level Perpetrators (p. 7)
		Structure of the Book (p. 8)
	Chapter 1. History of Ethnic Relations in Bosnia and Herzegovina (p. 10)
		Background (p. 10)
		Democracy and Division in Bosnia and Herzegovina (p. 13)
		Parallel State Institutions (p. 16)
		Genocidal Intent (p. 19)
		Dehumanization/ Portraying the Other (p. 20)
		Attack on Bosnia and Herzegovina (p. 23)
		Bosnian Serb Police Force (MUP RS) (p. 25)
		Six Strategic Goals of the Serbian People (p. 27)
	Chapter 2. Collective Traumatization (p. 30)
		Camps as Trauma: Trauma as Genocide (p. 30)
		Humiliation and Trauma in Survivor Testimony (p. 37)
		Ethnic Cleansing as Genocide (p. 39)
		Destruction of Religious and Cultural Heritage (p. 43)
		Concentration Camps: Definitions (p. 45)
		Concentration Camps: Historical Background (p. 47)
		Previous Research on the Camps in Bosnia and Herzegovina (p. 67)
	Chapter 3. Višegrad (p. 75)
		Introduction (p. 75)
		The Attack from Serbia (p. 76)
		Targeting Bosniak Elites (p. 81)
		Bloody Trail (p. 82)
		Hasan Veletovac Elementary School (p. 83)
		Višegrad Spa (p. 88)
		Vilina Vlas Hotel (p. 88)
		Fire Station (p. 91)
		Police Station (p. 92)
		Uzamnica Camp (p. 95)
		Community Center Dobrun (p. 99)
		Orahovci Elementary School (p. 100)
		False Testimonies and Enforced Disapearances (p. 100)
		Deportations (p. 101)
		Massacres during Deportations (p. 102)
		Perpetrators (p. 102)
		Destruction of Religious Buildings (p. 105)
		Concentration Camps and Mass Graves (p. 105)
	Chapter 4. Prijedor (p. 107)
		Introduction (p. 107)
		Coup d’etat (p. 110)
		Prijedor Crisis Committee (p. 112)
		Media (p. 114)
		The Killing Days (p. 115)
		Omarska Camp (p. 122)
		Trnopolje Camp (p. 132)
		Keraterm Camp (p. 135)
		Manjača Camp (p. 137)
		Deportations (p. 140)
		Mass Graves (p. 142)
		Destruction of Religious Buildings (p. 143)
		Perpetrators (p. 144)
		Crisis Committee and Concentration Camps (p. 147)
	Chapter 5. Bijeljina (p. 148)
		Introduction (p. 148)
		A Bloody Eid (p. 149)
		Crisis Committee (p. 152)
		Batković Camp (p. 153)
		Executions (p. 160)
		Camp “Discovery” (p. 161)
		ICRC Visits (p. 161)
		“Voluntary” Removal (p. 163)
		Religious Conversion and Name Changing (p. 166)
		Destruction of Mosques (p. 167)
		Perpetrators (p. 167)
	Chapter 6. Bileća (p. 170)
		Introduction (p. 170)
		The Takeover of Bileća (p. 172)
		Moše Pijade Military Barracks (p. 176)
		SJB Bileća (p. 179)
		Đački Dom (p. 183)
		Stari Zatvor Detention Center (p. 185)
		Visits by ICRC and CSCE (p. 187)
		RS Government Report (p. 187)
		Destruction of Mosques (p. 188)
		Perpetrators (p. 188)
	Chapter 7. Conclusions (p. 191)
		Demographic Changes (p. 191)
		Camp Comparisons and Similarities (p. 194)
		Patterns of Genocide: Ethnic Cleansing and Collective Trauma (p. 200)
		Macro- and Micro-Level Perpetrators (p. 203)
		Postwar Reality and Camp Memory (p. 204)
		Placing the Bosnian Serb Concentration Camps in Their Global Context (p. 208)
	References (p. 217)
	Name Index (p. 239)
	Trial Judgments Index (p. 247)
	Subject Index (p. 249)

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 Karčić 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.” Karčić 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, Višegrad, and Bileća. Chosen according to their political and geographical position, Karčić 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.« (Source: University of Michigan Press)

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