Norman Cigar's 1995 study, published by Texas A&M University Press, arguing that the mass killing of Bosnian Muslims was the planned outcome of a deliberate Serbian policy of ethnic cleansing rather than the unintended byproduct of civil war. Written and published while the war's toll was still being tallied in real time, it works from the wartime and immediate postwar casualty figures then current in reporting and early scholarship, a range of roughly 200,000 dead that later demographic research, including record-linkage studies verified against the pre-war census, substantially revised downward. Its strength is a close documentary case for policy intent behind the killing. Its limit, for a casualty figure specifically, is that it reflects the estimate current at the time of writing rather than the lower, later, individually verified count.
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A named scholar's academic press monograph, standard in the field for the war's policy of ethnic cleansing, whose casualty figure reflects the wartime-era estimate current when it was written rather than later, lower, demographically verified research. NotesCited for the higher, wartime and early postwar estimate of the Bosnian War death toll, current in the literature before later demographic research revised it down.
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AuthorNorman Cigar
PublisherTexas A&M University Press
Publication Year1995
Source Typeacademic monograph
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