Max Bergholz
Search for other papers by Max Bergholz in
Current site
Google Scholar
PubMed
Close
‘As if nothing ever happened’
Massacres, missing corpses, and silence in a Bosnian community

Newly available documentation from the State Archive of Bosnia-Herzegovina indicates that the majority of sites where Muslim civilians were massacred during the Second World War remained unmarked as late as the mid-1980s. This chapter seeks to answer the question of why so many sites in Bosnia-Herzegovina where Muslim civilians were murdered remained unmarked after the war. It does so through the reconstruction and analysis of the wartime and postwar history of Kulen Vakuf, a small town located in northwestern Bosnia. The corpses of the victims were never gathered and buried, and no monuments were even built in memory of them. This resulted in a silence whereby the region's inhabitants learned how not to speak of the large number of corpses that everyone knew existed in close proximity.

  • Collapse
  • Expand

All of MUP's digital content including Open Access books and journals is now available on manchesterhive.

 

Destruction and human remains

Disposal and concealment in genocide and mass violence

Metrics

All Time Past Year Past 30 Days
Abstract Views 0 0 0
Full Text Views 764 37 6
PDF Downloads 385 37 4