ACADEMIC REPORT ON

THE SUFFERINGS OF SERBS IN SARAJEVO BETWEEN 1991 TO 1995

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Conclusions

EXPERTISE

Althought each individual member of the Commission has focused principally on that aspect of this Report closest to his expertise, the entire team of the Commission collectively assumes full responsibility and accountability for this Report in its entirety. The choice and collection of the materials needed for the writing of this Report, as well as the process of formulating the various versions and drafts, were all carried out in close consultation among all members of the Commission.

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(I) Historical context of Bosnia and Herzegovina

(II) Restorative social justice

(III) Role of radical Islam

(IV) The role of media

(V) The suffering of the Serbs in Sarajevo

(VI) Physical and psychological aspects of suffering

(VII) General conclusions

(VIII) Bibliography

MAP OF SUFFERING

TRUE STORIES AND TESTIMONIALS

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Steven MeyerFormer Deputy Chief of the CIA’s Interagency Balkan Task Force is Dean of the Daniel Morgan School Graduate Studies and Chairman of its National Security Program.

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Albert BenabouFormer senior official of the Israeli Government, he was appointed by the UN Secretary-General, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, to the position of Civil Officer to the UN Peacekeeping Forces in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the war and witnessed and responded to the atrocities of the war for an entire year.

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dr Miodrag LazićHe was one of the founders of the war-time hospital “Žica” in Blazuj in Sarajevo, almost on the frontline. He was there for 40 months as the only surgeon in the former Srpsko Sarajevo where he performed more than 3,500 operations under the general anesthesia of a large number of Serb children and civilians, as well as members of all warring parties. Few months after he gave the interview for the Commission, he passed away from the coronavirus infection.

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Nenad KecmanovićProfessor Emeritus at the Faculty of Political Science in Banja Luka, a Member of the Russian Academy of Political Science in Moscow, Professor at the Faculty of Political Science in Belgrade, and, since 1999, a member of the Senate of Republika Srpska. He was a highly respected member of the Yugoslav academic community before the war and a rector at the University of Sarajevo. In 1992 Mr. Kecmanović, together with Alija Izetbegović, was a member of the Presidency of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina before managing to escape from the Muslim part of Sarajevo in the summer of the same year.

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Dušan ŠehovacPresident of the Democratic Initiative of Sarajevo Serbs, Director of the Human Rights Bureau, a project writer, project manager, lecturer, facilitator, and mediator. Before the war, he was an assistant professor at the Department of Sociology at the University of Sarajevo and a leading member of the academic community. He spent much of the wartime in Sarajevo, where he witnessed and responded to many aspects of the war. He is a former member of the Board of Directors of the Missing Persons Institute of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

“This is the comprehensive account that reflects the wartime sufferings of the Serbs in Sarajevo and the destruction of this historical community in totality.”

There have been numerous studies of many aspects of the Civil War in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This inquiry seeks to make an important contribution to the knowledge about this conflict by shedding light on the many developments that occurred in Sarajevo during the war, which, while crucial, have nevertheless been neglected to date.

We consider it our responsibility to present a broader and more comprehensive account that reflects the wartime sufferings of the Serb people, while in no way minimizing the significance of the sufferings of the other parties. On the contrary, we have the deepest respect and profoundest sympathy for all the victims who tragically lost their lives and suffered during the devastation of the Civil War in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

We firmly believe that only through an objective perception of what really happened in Bosnia and Herzegovina and in Sarajevo from 1991 there can be created an accurate historical account, enabling those who suffered and lost their lives to be remembered, and have homage paid to them.

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