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Book on Bosnian war victims presented

SARAJEVO, Jan 21 (Hina) - The "Bosnian Book of the Dead", a four-volume edition by the Research and Documentation Centre (IDC) from Sarajevo containing the names of nearly 100,000 Bosnian citizens killed in the 1991-96 wars in the former Yugoslavia, was presented in Sarajevo on Monday.

The IDC consulted more than 700 sources and collected data on 95,940 Bosnian citizens killed. Their names and ethnic origins were made available earlier in electronic form.

"This is not a closed book and every name remains important," said IDC director Mirsad Tokaca, adding that the book was part of a regional project aimed at publishing the names of all people killed in the former Yugoslav wars.

A total of 57,701 Bosnian soldiers and 38,239 civilians were killed between 1991 and 1996. Among the civilians, there were 31,107 Bosniaks, 4,178 Serbs and 2,484 Croats. Among the soldiers, there were 30,900 Bosniaks, 20,774 Serbs and 5,919 Croats.

Six thousand Bosnian citizens were killed wearing Croatian Army and Croat Defence Council uniforms, 465 Croats were killed fighting for the Bosnian Army, while 47 were killed fighting for the Yugoslav People's Army or the Bosnian Serb army.

Sarajevo theology professor Ivan Sarcevic said the facts collected in the book should help in building a new culture of remembering in which one would stop highlighting only "their" victims and ignoring or minimising others.

The director of the Humanitarian Law Centre from Belgrade, Natasa Kandic, said a similar book would soon be published on people killed in Kosovo, to be followed by a similar book for Serbia, while in Croatia such a project will be realised by the Documenta centre.

Lists of the victims of the 1991 conflict in Slovenia and the 2000 conflict in Macedonia will also be compiled which, Kandic said, "will give new impetus to our initiative for the Regional Commission for Truth and Reconciliation."

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