Unmasking War: Chronicles of Ethnic Cleansing, Visegrad (Bosnia-Herzegovina), the Spring of 1992

Elisabeth Claverie, Unmasking War: Chronicles of Ethnic Cleansing, Visegrad (Bosnia-Herzegovina), the Spring of 1992. - This study of the techniques that, used by militia and the military for ethnic cleansing, were masked under the terms "warfare" or "civil war" focuses on a small town near the border between Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia : Visegrad. Judiciary sources are used, namely the testimonies collected during the cross-examination of witnesses before the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia. The acts of violence analyzed herein belong, in certain regards, to a larger set despite differences in the contexts. The inquiries conducted by international courts reveal in detail these actions, qualified under the generic phrase "asymmetrical warfare". They shed light on the techniques (without depoliticizing them) that armed groups use to control civilian masses, in this case for the purpose of making a territory ethnically homogeneous.