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Jennings, Christian.
Subjects
International Commission on Missing Persons.
Criminal investigation -- Bosnia and Hercegovina.
Forensic sciences -- Bosnia and Hercegovina.
Genocide -- Bosnia and Hercegovina.
Genocide -- History -- 20th century.
Massacres -- History -- 20th century.
Political atrocities -- History -- 20th century.
War crimes -- History -- 20th century.
War crimes -- History.
Crimes against humanity -- History -- 20th century.
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Jennings, Christian.
International Commission on Missing Persons.
Criminal investigation -- Bosnia and Hercegovina.
Forensic sciences -- Bosnia and Hercegovina.
Genocide -- Bosnia and Hercegovina.
Genocide -- History -- 20th century.
Massacres -- History -- 20th century.
Political atrocities -- History -- 20th century.
War crimes -- History -- 20th century.
War crimes -- History.
Crimes against humanity -- History -- 20th century.
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Bosnia's million bones : solving the world's greatest forensic puzzle / Christian Jennings.
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Jennings, Christian.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Call #:
364.151 J54b
Subjects
International Commission on Missing Persons.
Criminal investigation -- Bosnia and Hercegovina.
Forensic sciences -- Bosnia and Hercegovina.
Genocide -- Bosnia and Hercegovina.
Genocide -- History -- 20th century.
Massacres -- History -- 20th century.
Political atrocities -- History -- 20th century.
War crimes -- History -- 20th century.
War crimes -- History.
Crimes against humanity -- History -- 20th century.
ISBN:
9781137278685 (hc.)
Edition:
First edition.
Description:
240 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
How does a country recover after a genocide? -- Separating the men from the women and children -- How the killers tried to hide the evidence -- Digging up the evidence of mass murder -- First stop : DNA -- Building a human identification system -- The wind of change in Serbia -- The world of the missing, post-9/11 -- The dead of World War Two -- Rule of law, not rule of war -- Ratko Mladic's last request : fresh strawberries and Tolstoy -- From Srebrenica to Kurdistan, Brazzaville and Libya.
Summary:
Describes the pioneering work of a team of forensic scientists who developed new techniques for identifying the victims of the Yugoslav Wars of the mid-1990's and how that effort has helped to bring war criminals to trial in other countries of the world.
Genre:
True crime.
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Alderney Gate Public Library
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