{"id":1538,"date":"2020-05-26T13:43:01","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T12:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.balkan-conflicts-research.com\/archive\/?page_id=1538"},"modified":"2020-05-26T13:54:47","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T12:54:47","slug":"icty-demographers-reduce-bosnia-death-total-by-50-norwegian-news-agfency","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.balkan-conflicts-research.com\/archive\/icty-demographers-reduce-bosnia-death-total-by-50-norwegian-news-agfency\/","title":{"rendered":"ICTY demographers reduce Bosnia death total by 50% -Norwegian News Agfency"},"content":{"rendered":"

102,000\u00a0killed in Bosnia<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Published on Nov. 14, 2004
\nBy Kjell Arild Nilsen, NTB (Norwegian News Agency)<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The number of people killed in the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina was around
\n102,000, according to research done by the International Criminal Tribunal
\nfor the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). This is half of earlier estimates.
\nThe most common and most widely used number of killed persons in the Bosnia\u00a0<\/span>war has been around 200,000. But research shows that this number is too
\nhigh.<\/span><\/p>\n

Researchers at the court estimate the correct number to be a bit over102,000. This number deviates somewhat from a documentation project going on in\u00a0Bosnia, and project leader Mirsad Tokaca concludes that the number of killed
\nwas between 130,000 and 150,000. For ICTY, the research project is conducted by the two population experts Ewa Tabeau\u00a0 and Jacub Bijak, who works for the ICTY prosecution.<\/span><\/p>\n

The results were presented at a conference for population experts,
\ndemographists, in Norway one year ago, but they have not been publicly\u00a0known.<\/span><\/p>\n

NTB has recently gained access to the material presented at the conference,
\nand for the first time they published scientific calculations of how many
\ncivilians were killed in the terrible war in Bosnia-Herzegovina from 1992 to
\n1995.Civilians and military102,622 civilians and military personnel were killed, Tabeau\u00a0and\u00a0Bijak conclude. 55,261 civilians and 47,360 soldiers were killed, including\u00a0Bosnian Muslims, Bosnian Serbs and Bosnian Croats.<\/span><\/p>\n

The researchers estimate the number of killed civilian Muslims and Croats to
\nbe around 38,000, while the number of killed civilian Serbians was about
\n16,700. Among military personnel, the researchers think close to 28,000 people were\u00a0killed in the government army, mostly Bosnian Muslims.<\/p>\n

On the Serbian side, 14,000 soldiers were killed, while a bit over 6,000
\nBosnian Croatian soldiers lost their lives because of actions of war.<\/p>\n

Higher number<\/p>\n

“The project of the Sarajevo Research and Documentation Center also has a
\ngoal to document every single person killed in the war,” tells project
\nleader Tokaca.\u00a0 He is not surprised about the numbers of the Hague researchers, but he\u00a0thinks his own project will conclude with higher numbers.\u00a0<\/span>“In October we had over 84,000 documented names of killed persons, and by\u00a0the end of the year I think we will have around 100,000,” he says.<\/span><\/p>\n

The project ends this spring, and Tokaca’s rough estimate is that they will
\nend up with a number between 130,000 and 150,000.<\/p>\n

“I don’t like to make premature estimates. But it will be over 100,000, and
\nsurely under 200,000. Our list only includes persons killed as an action of
\nwar, not those who died of indirect reasons of war,” says Tokaca who cannot
\ngive enough praise to the support of the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign
\nAffairs.<\/p>\n

Conservative estimates<\/p>\n

Researchers Tabeau Bijak have taken a clear reservation that the number
\ncould be higher than previously concluded.\u00a0Because the researchers work for the prosecution at the ICTY, the numbers\u00a0have to be so certain that they can be used as documentation in the court.<\/span><\/p>\n

Numbers for persons dying during the war because of lack of food, low
\ntemperatures, lack of medicines and other endeavors in the war inflicted on
\nthe civilian population are not included.<\/p>\n

The researches are also careful to note that new documentation could
\ninfluence the final result.<\/p>\n

Wrong numbers<\/span><\/p>\n


\nThe most commonly used number for killed persons in the war in
\nBosnia-Herzegovina has been 200,000, and this number has been repeated in
\ninternational media since 1994.<\/span><\/p>\n

The number originates from Cherif Bassouni, who was the leader of UN’s
\nexpert commission investigating war crimes in the former Yugoslavia,
\nfinishing their work in 1994.<\/p>\n

Tabeau and Bijak conclude that this number is too high, and it was not based
\non an examination of the cause of death in every single case, rather a
\nsummary statistics based on numbers of killed and missing received by the
\ncommission in their work and added together.<\/p>\n

The researchers also reject other numbers presented, ranging from 25,000 to
\n329,000.<\/p>\n

Norway’s contribution has been essential to conclude the research.<\/p>\n

The demographic unit at the office of the prosecution was established in<\/p>\n

1998, and the two researchers said their positions would not be possible to
\nfund without generous contributions from Norway’s government.<\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.nrk.no\/nyheter\/utenriks\/4260912.html<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

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