Hikmet Karcic
Hikmet Karčić is a genocide and Holocaust scholar based in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He was the 2017 Auschwitz Institute-Keene State College Global Fellow who has written extensively on genocide denial and atrocity prevention. A sought after commentator on international media outlets, his articles covering far-right extremism and mass atrocities have appeared in Haaretz, Newsweek and Foreign Policy.
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The paper presents a part of the scientific research project that was undertaken in 2017 by the authors. In it, the authors talk about the ways of memorialization of the suffering of Bosniaks in the past war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, in some places in Donji Vakuf. The research included three sites in this municipality, and the highlighted values and weaknesses of these memorializations.
Community in Bosnia and Herzegovina faced several new political and religious struggles. The contribution aims to explore the response of the Islamic Community to the break-up of Yugoslavia, the war, mass atrocities and genocide. In order to present an official view, the writings in the official Glasnik newspaper (the official Herald) will be presented. The research will focus on several debates which arose during the war of 1992 − 1995, including the issues of shahids, raped women, jihad etc., as well as other official decisions brought by the Islamic Community during these turbulent times.
Keywords: Islamic community, Glasnik, Bosnia and Herzegovina, war, Islam.
Povodom 22. godišnjice genocida nad Bošnjacima u UN sigurnoj zoni " Srebrenica " , o pitanjima sjećanja, terminologiji, negiranju zločina i literaturi razgovaramo sa prof. David Pettigrew, profesorom filozofije na univerzitetu Southern Connecticut u SAD. Prof. Pettigrew autor je više knjiga i stručnih članaka. U posljednjih nekoliko godina, aktivno se bavi pitanjima pravde, sjećanja i politike u post-dejtonskoj Bosni i Hercegovini.
strani nalazi se betonski montažni hangar koji je pripadao Zemljoradničkoj zdruzi (ZZ) Kravica. Svojevremeno je korišten za čuvanje poljoprivrednih proizvoda. Hangar je
dug 60 metara, širok 10 metara, a visok 4 metra. u julu 1995. godine ovaj hangar je bio mjesto jednog od najbrutalnijih masakara tokom genocida u Srebrenici. Procjenjuje se da je u ovom hangaru bilo zatočeno
najmanje 1200 Bošnjaka.
Cilj ovog rada je ukazati na jedan od najinteresantnijih slučajeva pred Domom za ljudska prava u Bosni i Hercegovini. Nestanak Tomislava Matanovića i njegovih roditelja izazvao je veliku paţnju međunarodnih subjekata i Katoličke crkve. Dvadeset godina nakon njihovog nestanka njihova sudbina i dalje nije u potpunosti jasna.
Summary
The aim of this paper is to deal with one of the most interesting cases in front of the Human Rights Chamber in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The disappearance of Vojislav Matanović and his parents sparked a lot of attention of international subjects and the Catholic Church. Twenty years after their disappearance, their fate is still not clear.
Novi Muallim, Vol. 17, Br 65
Kusturica who, with the financial support of Serbia and Republika Srpska, started building an
artifical town named Andrićgrad. This paper aims to deconstruct Andrićgrad through the analysis of its nationalist ethno-symbolism elements in the town.
Keywords: Bosnia, Visegrad, Emir Kusturica, Andrićgrad, ethno-symbolism
Ključne riječi: genocid, univerzalna jurisdikcija, njemačko pravosuđe
The paper presents a part of the scientific research project that was undertaken in 2017 by the authors. In it, the authors talk about the ways of memorialization of the suffering of Bosniaks in the past war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, in some places in Donji Vakuf. The research included three sites in this municipality, and the highlighted values and weaknesses of these memorializations.
Community in Bosnia and Herzegovina faced several new political and religious struggles. The contribution aims to explore the response of the Islamic Community to the break-up of Yugoslavia, the war, mass atrocities and genocide. In order to present an official view, the writings in the official Glasnik newspaper (the official Herald) will be presented. The research will focus on several debates which arose during the war of 1992 − 1995, including the issues of shahids, raped women, jihad etc., as well as other official decisions brought by the Islamic Community during these turbulent times.
Keywords: Islamic community, Glasnik, Bosnia and Herzegovina, war, Islam.
Povodom 22. godišnjice genocida nad Bošnjacima u UN sigurnoj zoni " Srebrenica " , o pitanjima sjećanja, terminologiji, negiranju zločina i literaturi razgovaramo sa prof. David Pettigrew, profesorom filozofije na univerzitetu Southern Connecticut u SAD. Prof. Pettigrew autor je više knjiga i stručnih članaka. U posljednjih nekoliko godina, aktivno se bavi pitanjima pravde, sjećanja i politike u post-dejtonskoj Bosni i Hercegovini.
strani nalazi se betonski montažni hangar koji je pripadao Zemljoradničkoj zdruzi (ZZ) Kravica. Svojevremeno je korišten za čuvanje poljoprivrednih proizvoda. Hangar je
dug 60 metara, širok 10 metara, a visok 4 metra. u julu 1995. godine ovaj hangar je bio mjesto jednog od najbrutalnijih masakara tokom genocida u Srebrenici. Procjenjuje se da je u ovom hangaru bilo zatočeno
najmanje 1200 Bošnjaka.
Cilj ovog rada je ukazati na jedan od najinteresantnijih slučajeva pred Domom za ljudska prava u Bosni i Hercegovini. Nestanak Tomislava Matanovića i njegovih roditelja izazvao je veliku paţnju međunarodnih subjekata i Katoličke crkve. Dvadeset godina nakon njihovog nestanka njihova sudbina i dalje nije u potpunosti jasna.
Summary
The aim of this paper is to deal with one of the most interesting cases in front of the Human Rights Chamber in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The disappearance of Vojislav Matanović and his parents sparked a lot of attention of international subjects and the Catholic Church. Twenty years after their disappearance, their fate is still not clear.
Novi Muallim, Vol. 17, Br 65
Kusturica who, with the financial support of Serbia and Republika Srpska, started building an
artifical town named Andrićgrad. This paper aims to deconstruct Andrićgrad through the analysis of its nationalist ethno-symbolism elements in the town.
Keywords: Bosnia, Visegrad, Emir Kusturica, Andrićgrad, ethno-symbolism
Ključne riječi: genocid, univerzalna jurisdikcija, njemačko pravosuđe
Knjiga predstavlja objedinjena višegodišnja naučna istraživanja autora, sistematizirana u šest poglavlja i napisana na osnovi primarne arhivske građe, a manji dio izvoda ili cijelih dokumenata mogu se pronaći i u prilozima knjige.
Recenzenti knjige su - akademik, prof. dr. Mirko Pejanović, prof. dr. Rasim Muratović, dr. Amir Kliko, prof. dr. Ehlimana Memišević i prof. dr. Hariz Halilovich, a urednik knjige je mr. Almir Grabovica.
Torture, Humiliate, Kill develops the author’s collective traumatization theory, which contends that the concentration camps set up by the Bosnian Serb authorities had the primary purpose of inflicting collective trauma on the non-Serb population of Bosnia and Herzegovina. This collective traumatization consisted of excessive use of torture, sexual abuse, humiliation, and killing. The physical and psychological suffering imposed by these methods were seen as a quick and efficient means to establish the Serb “living space.” Karčić argues that this trauma was deliberately intended to deter non-Serbs from ever returning to their pre-war homes. The book centers on multiple examples of experiences at concentration camps in four towns operated by Bosnian Serbs during the war: Prijedor, Bijeljina, Višegrad, and Bileća. Chosen according to their political and geographical position, Karčić demonstrates that these camps were used as tools for the ethno-religious genocidal campaign against non-Serbs. Torture, Humiliate, Kill is a thorough and definitive resource for understanding the function and operation of camps during the Bosnian genocide.
Kao rezultat ovog projekta, nastao je ovaj udžbenik, zamišljen kao komparativna studija o uzrocima, toku i posljedicama holokausta u zemljama Višegradske grupe: Češke, Slovačke, Mađarske i Poljske. Sastoji se iz prevoda najznačajnijih tekstova objavljenih na engleskom jeziku, a koji obuhvataju od definicije pojma „holokaust“, analize različitih faza izvršenja holokausta u navedenim zemljama, načine izučavanja ovih događaja u sadašnjosti, do ličnih svjedočenja preživjelih.
Smatramo da će ovaj udžbenik, jedini ove vrste u Bosni i Hercegovini, ispunjavati svoju osnovnu svrhu – izučavanje genocida u historijskoj i komparativnoj perspektivi i utjecati na razvoj svijesti o značaju izučavanja genocida i drugih zločina protiv čovječnosti. Na taj način će i doprinijeti čuvanju od zaborava, te sprječavanju poricanja, kao posljednje faze u izvršenju genocida, kojim se, prema riječima Deborah E. Lipstadt, nastoji preoblikovati historija “s ciljem rehabilitacije počinilaca i demoniziranja žrtve”.
Priređivači Jasmin Hasić, Ehlimana Memišević i Hikmet Karčić
genocide against Bosniak in the UN ‘Safe Area’ of Srebrenica by Bosnian Serb Army and police forces in July 1995. After a quarter of a century, denial of the Srebrenica genocide not only persists but is bolder and
more pervasive than ever before.
In the last two years alone, the Bosnian Serb establishment has founded a revisionist commission supposedly tasked with uncovering the “truth” about what happened in Srebrenica. Peter Handke, a lackey of
Milošević and avowed genocide denier, was awarded
the Nobel Prize for Literature in Stockholm. Serbian
nationalists in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina
continue to instrumentalize denial and minimization
of the Srebrenica genocide in pursuit of their regional
political agendas. Additionally, the Bosnian genocide
continues to be a source of inspiration for far-right
extremists across the globe, as evidenced by the brutal terrorist attacks in Oslo, Norway and in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Bearing in mind these alarming circumstances, the
Srebrenica Potočari Memorial Center, the Faculty of
Political Science at the University of Sarajevo and the
Institute for Islamic Tradition of Bosniaks attempted
to take a stand against genocide denial and historical
revisionism by organizing a virtual conference titled
Denial and Triumphalism: Origins, Impact and Prevention.
This hybrid conference, interdisciplinary conference
with a focus on memory, denial, prevention, and accountability, was held at the Faculty of Political Science in Sarajevo on July 10, 2020.
This publication consists of a selected number of
papers presented at this conference with the aim to
perpetuate this attempt at combating denial and triumphalism in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
conference “Genocide in Srebrenica: Towards a Long-Lasting Memory” held in Sarajevo 12-13 May 2015.
U prvom dijelu knjige pod naslovom “Zločini protiv čovječnosti i međunarodnog prava nad Bošnjacima Jajca, Jezera i Šipova 1992-1995.” autori: mr. sc. Zilha Mastalić-Košuta, mr. Alma Hajrić-Čaušević i mr. Almir Grabovica pišu o agresiji na Bosnu i Hercegovinu i događajima koji su rezultirali masovnim zločinima nad Bošnjacima u Jajcu, Jezeru i Šipovu te donose spisak svih žrtava zločina protiv čovječnosti i međunarodnog prava na području ove tri općine/opštine.
Drugi dio knjige “Memorijalizacija zločina nad Bošnjacima Jajca, Jezra i Šipova” bavi se materijalnim i nematerijalnim oblicima memorijalizacije zločina nad Bošnjacima u Jajcu, Jezeru i Šipovu.
Autori ovog dijela knjige su dr. sc. Elvir Duranović i mr. Hikmet Karčić.