De doden van Surmanci. De locale bronnen van 'de oorlog' in Bosnië-Hercegovina

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This article has been retracted by the editors. The Dead of Surmanci. The Local Sources of 'the War' in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Bosnia-Herzegovina contains many monuments erected to commemorate those buried in mass graves during WWII who were victims of violent clashes between Croatian Ustasas and Serbian Cetniks. When the Yugoslav civil war spread to this region in 1992, many of the commemorative markers were destroyed, as happened in Surmanci. This destruction deflected the attention that might have been paid by social scientists to this historical violence. Many Western anthropologists accepted the propaganda of the Marshal Tito regime of the former Yugoslavia, which maintained that national and ethnic strife had ceased under the communist system. A call is made for a more systematic inquiry into the local sources of the ethnicity-based civil war. 70 References. Adapted from the source document.