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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781982603321

Autore

Leydesdorff Selma

Titolo

Surviving the Bosnian Genocide : The Women of Srebrenica Speak / / Professor of Women's Histor Leydesdorff

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, IN : , : INDIANA University Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-253-01804-8

0-253-00529-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

LeydesdorffSelma

Disciplina

949.703

Soggetti

krigsforbrydelser

kvindehistorie

flygtninge

politisk vold

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Translator's Note; Preface: What Happened Before; Acknowledgments; On the Publication of the English Edition; Abbreviations; Sabaheta's Story; ONE Farewell: The Desolation, the Women; TWO An Orphaned World: Life before the War; THREE War Is Coming; FOUR Living on the Run, Living in Danger; FIVE A Human Shooting Gallery: Srebrenica 1992-1995; SIX Violence; SEVEN Departure without Arrival; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In July 1995, the Army of the Serbian Republic killed some 8,000 Bosnian                men and boys in and around the town of Srebrenica -- the largest mass murder in                Europe since World War II. Surviving the Bosnian Genocide is based on the                testimonies of 60 female survivors of the massacre who were interviewed by Dutch                historian Selma Leydesdorff. The women, many of whom still live in refugee camps,                talk about their lives before the Bosnian war, the events of the massacre, and the                ways they have tried to cope with