BOOK PROMOTION: “ZVORNIK 1992–1995: GENOCIDE AT THE GATEWAY OF BOSNIA” AT Vijećnica

The promotion of the book “Zvornik 1992–1995: Genocide at the Gateway of Bosnia” will be held at Sarajevo’s Vijećnica on Tuesday, 17 February, beginning at 6:30 p.m. The authors of the book are Dr. Muamer Džananović and Dr. Elvedin Mulagić. The work was recently published by the University of Sarajevo - Institute for Research of Crimes against Humanity and International Law.

Speakers at the promotion will include Academician Mirko Pejanović, Vice President of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina; Prof. Dr. Edina Bećirević, Professor at the Faculty of Criminalistics, Criminology and Security Studies, University of Sarajevo; Dr. Amir Kliko, Senior Research Associate at the Institute; and Prof. Dr. Hariz Halilovich, Professor at RMIT University.

The book is the result of a ten-year empirical scientific research project conducted by the Institute, based on extensive archival materials and more than 200 authentic field video interviews with victims and witnesses. It has been published in two volumes totaling 1,400 pages, structured into 15 chapters, with more than 4,500 footnotes and extensive appendices containing systematized lists of victims, mass graves exhumed in the Zvornik area, as well as other relevant documentation.

The work provides a detailed analysis of the political, military, and police structures involved in the planning, coordination, and execution of the crimes, including institutions of Serbia and Montenegro, the State Security Service of Serbia, the Yugoslav People’s Army, paramilitary formations, the bureaucratic apparatus of the “Serb Municipality of Zvornik,” and other perpetrators. The research was aimed at documenting all war crimes and establishing the identities of the victims. The appendices present basic biographical data and the circumstances of the killing or disappearance of a total of 2,472 victims in the municipality of Zvornik during the period 1992–1995, including 392 residents of Zvornik killed in the genocide in Srebrenica and its surrounding area.