Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Note on Pronunciation; Map of Bosnia and Herzegovina; Introduction; 1. The Fall of Srebrenica; 2. The People and Place of Postwar Srebrenica; 3. A Technological Innovation; 4. Memory at Work; 5. Where Memory and Imagination Meet; 6. Return to Potocari; 7. That you see, that you know, that you remember; 8. Technology of Repair; Epilogue; Notes; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
Summary
In the aftermath of the 1992-1995 Bosnian war, the discovery of unmarked mass graves revealed Europe's worst atrocity since World War II: the genocide in the UN "safe area" of Srebrenica. To Know Where He Lies provides a powerful account of the innovative genetic technology developed to identify the eight thousand Bosnian Muslim (Bosniak) men and boys found in those graves and elsewhere, demonstrating how memory, imagination, and science come together to recover identities lost to genocide. Sarah E. Wagner explores technology's import across several areas of postwar Bosnian society--for familie
Analysis
accountability
armed conflict
bosnia
bosniak
bosnian muslim
bosnian war
breakup of yugoslavia
ethnicity cleansing
europe
genetic technology
genocide
herzegovina
identification
imagination
islam
meaning of absence
memory
personalized loss
political leadership
postwar bosnian society
postwar srebrenica
potocari
safe area
science
social repair
socialist federal republic of yugoslavia
srebrenica
technology of repair
unmarked mass graves
violence
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-319) and index
