Grave Faces: A Forensic Technician’s Story of Gathering Evidence of Genocide in Bosnia

by Robert McNeil

This book is the story of the author’s experiences as a forensic technician, gathering evidence of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide in Bosnia and Kosovo, from 1996 to 2002, during the most extensive international forensic investigation in history conducted by the United Nations. ‘Grave Faces’ is unique in that it’s the first book written by an experienced technician who was involved in that investigation. The majority of the victims were from Srebrenica, but he also worked with victims murdered in the notorious concentration camps around Prijedor, as well as mass graves in Krusha Madhe and Prizren. While this book is significant for all ordinary readers interested in Bosnia and Kosovo, it also provides an important insight to those interested in forensic work, development of international law and justice, contemporary genocide studies and post war and reconciliation studies.

Genres: Nonfiction, History

312 pages, Hardcover

First published July 1, 2022

Reviews

[Iyad Abou-rabii · Rating 5 out of 5]

Humans are worst animals on earth.

[Pamela Conley · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the powerful but devastating story of Scottish Forensic Technician, Robert McNeil's mutiple trips to Bosnia and one trip to Kosovo to exhume bodies from mass graves, provide autopsies, and document the atrocities committed on the Bosnian people during the Bosnian war. The author worked with an international team hired by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). This group was specifically commissioned to document Crimes Against Humanity to bring perpetrators to trial in the Hague. The ICTY has positively identified more than 6000 Bosnian victims of torture and genocide and the work is on going. The author tells this story in a organized, detailed, and clinical but still very humanizing fashion. I was gifted this book by a teaching colleague who is a Bosnian immigrant, after I asked for book recommendations about the Bosnian war. If you want to learn more about the Balkan war that occurred in the 1990s this is a invaluable resource.

[Dr Eman Sonnet · Rating 5 out of 5]

You may be interested in watching some videos from The author.
to preserve the memory of the Bosnian Genocide.
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