{"id":42127,"date":"2024-09-06T21:10:01","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T21:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=42127"},"modified":"2024-09-06T21:10:52","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T21:10:52","slug":"christian-axboe-nielsen-mass-atrocities-and-the-police-a-new-history-of-ethnic-cleansing-in-bosnia-and-herzegovina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=42127","title":{"rendered":"Christian Axboe Nielsen, \u201eMass Atrocities and the Police: A New History of Ethnic Cleansing in Bosnia and Herzegovina\u201c"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Between April 1992 and December 1995, more than 100,000 people were killed in the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The terrible atrocities committed in this period have been much discussed and studied and many prosecuted as acts of genocide, war crimes or crimes against humanity. But so far, the academic scholarship has focused on the role of the military in these events. This has come at the expense of considering the police&#8217;s role, which Nielsen here demonstrates as crucial. Nielsen traces the origins of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina to the police and associated paramilitary groups. Nielsen makes this ground-breaking case by drawing on a host of confidential archival sources, academic research and practical experience as a widely cited expert witness in the most notorious of the war crimes tribunals. His innovative new history sheds light on wider issues regarding the dissolution of Yugoslavia, the Balkan wars and the region today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Introduction<br><br>Chapter 1: From Elections to War: the Police and the Purposeful Destruction of Bosnia<br><br>Chapter 2: The Police and the Forcible Seizure of Power<br><br>Chapter 3: Search, Detain, Destroy: Ethnic Cleansing, Expulsions and Police Concentration Camps<br><br>Chapter 4: Of Red Berets and Plausible Deniability: Serbia&#8217;s Support for the RS MUP<br><br>Chapter 5: The Police and the Forcible Seizure of Power<br><br>Epilogue: The Bosnian Serb Police and Negative Peace in Dayton Bosnia<br><br>Index<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Product details<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Published Jul 14 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Format Hardback<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Edition 1st<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Extent &nbsp; 248<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ISBN &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 9781788315258<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Imprint &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Bloomsbury Academic<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Illustrations &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 10 bw illus<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dimensions &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 9 x 6 inches<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Publisher \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Bloomsbury Publishing<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Biography<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Christian Axboe Nielsen is Associate Professor of History and Human Security at Aarhus University, Denmark. He has worked as an analyst at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, and has appeared as an expert witness in international and domestic criminal and civil cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Reviews<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/us\/mass-atrocities-and-the-police-9781788315258\/\">https:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/us\/mass-atrocities-and-the-police-9781788315258\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knjige","category-novosti"],"acf":{"facebook_opis":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Nielsen.jpg?fit=852%2C1278&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":54292,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=54292","url_meta":{"origin":42127,"position":0},"title":"Eliot Short, &#8220;Building a Multiethnic Military in Post-Yugoslav Bosnia and Herzegovina&#8221;","author":"Branimir Jankovi\u0107","date":"24. lipnja 2026.","format":false,"excerpt":"U velja\u010di 2022. godine izdana je knjiga Building a Multiethnic Military in Post-Yugoslav Bosnia and Herzegovina autora Eliota Shorta u kojoj istra\u017euje razvoj multietni\u010dkih Oru\u017eanih snaga Bosne i Hercegovine nakon zavr\u0161etka rata te njihovu ulogu u osiguravanju stabilnosti dr\u017eave.\u00a0 O knjizi: On 1 January 2006, soldiers from across Bosnia and\u2026","rel":"","context":"U &quot;Knjige&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Knjige","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?cat=8"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Building-a-Multiethnic-Military.jpg?fit=800%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Building-a-Multiethnic-Military.jpg?fit=800%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Building-a-Multiethnic-Military.jpg?fit=800%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Building-a-Multiethnic-Military.jpg?fit=800%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":55908,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=55908","url_meta":{"origin":42127,"position":1},"title":"Talk with Olivera Simi\u0107: \u201cMadam War Criminal\u201d \u2013 Women, War and Justice","author":"Branimir Jankovi\u0107","date":"16. listopada 2026.","format":false,"excerpt":"The legal scholar and author Olivera Simi\u0107 (Professor at Griffith University, Australia) will visit the University of Graz to discuss her latest book, Madam War Criminal: The Extraordinary Life and Trial of a Woman Accused of War Crimes (Hurst Publishers). 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