{"product_id":"torture-humiliate-kill-hikmet-karcic-9780472132966","title":"Torture, Humiliate, Kill: Inside the Bosnian Serb Camp System","description":"\u003cp\u003eHalf a century after the Holocaust, on European soil, Bosnian Serbs orchestrated a system of concentration camps where they subjected their Bosniak Muslim and Bosnian Croat neighbors to torture, abuse, and killing. Foreign journalists exposed the horrors of the camps in the summer of 1992, sparking worldwide outrage. This exposure, however, did not stop the mass atrocities. Hikmet Karčic shows that the use of camps and detention facilities has been a ubiquitous practice in countless wars and genocides in order to achieve the wartime objectives of perpetrators. Although camps have been used for different strategic purposes, their essential functions are always the same: to inflict torture and lasting trauma on the victims. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eTorture, Humiliate, Kill\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\" Karčic 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, Visegrad, and Bileca. Chosen according to their political and geographical position, Karčic demonstrates that these camps were used as tools for the ethno-religious genocidal campaign against non-Serbs. \u003ci\u003eTorture, Humiliate, Kill\u003c\/i\u003e is a thorough and definitive resource for understanding the function and operation of camps during the Bosnian genocide.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Hikmet Karcic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0472132962\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780472132966\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Michigan Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/25\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 276\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.03lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.24h x 6.33w x 1.00d","brand":"Hikmet Karcic","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44043739136255,"sku":"9780472132966","price":85.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f7392ee5-20e8-4062-aaba-0c844f91f2b9.jpg?v=1684968866","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/torture-humiliate-kill-hikmet-karcic-9780472132966","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}