The Bosnian Book of the Dead

In January 2013, the Research and Documentation Center in Sarajevo published its final research on Bosnia-Herzegovina's war casualties, titled The Bosnian Book of the Dead. 

Overview

The research was summarized in a database that included 97,207 confirmed names of Bosnia and Herzegovina's citizens, killed during the 1992–1995 war, with an additional 5,100 unconfirmed names. An international team of experts evaluated the findings before they were released. Ewa Tabeu, the head of the ICTY Demographic Unit, called it "the largest existing database on Bosnian war victims".Research and Documentation Center: Rezultati istraživanja "Ljudski gubici '91–'95" 

Confirmed casualties

Of the 97,207 casualties documented by 2013:
 60% were soldiers, 40% civilians
 90% were male
 62% were Bosniaks, 25% Bosnian Serbs, and just over 8% Croats
 Of civilian victims, 82% were Bosniaks, 10% Bosnian Serbs, and 6.5% Bosnian Croats, with a small number of Jews, Roma and others., pp. 96–98

The percentage of civilian victims would probably have been higher had survivors not reported their loved-ones as "soldiers" to access social services and other post-mortem benefits.


Related pages

 The Holocaust
 Bosnian genocide
 Cambodian genocide
 Genocides by the Soviet Union
 Yugoslav massacres of Kosovo Albanians during the Kosovo War

Notelist

References

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Category:Bosnian genocide
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