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• General information:
  • A Brief History of Bosnia-Herzegovina by Andras Riedlmayer.
  • Indexed maps of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia by Dubravko Kakarigi.
• Libraries and archives:
  • Destruction of Libraries in Bosnia-Herzegovina by Andras Riedlmayer. MESA Bulletin 29 (July 1995).
  • Libraries Are Not for Burning : International Librarianship and the Recovery of the Destroyed Heritage of Bosnia-Herzegovina by Andras Riedlmayer. Presented at the 61st Congress of IFLA (Istanbul, 20-26 August 1995).
  • Bibliocide by Harbour Fraser Hodder. Harvard Magazine (November-December 1996).
  • Mémoricide ou la purification culturelle: la guerre et les bibliothèques de Croatie et de Bosnie-Herzégovine by Vesna Blazina. Documentation et bibliothèques 42 (1996).
  • From Ashes---The Fate of the National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an account of its history, destruction, rebirth and current needs, compiled by its director, Dr. Enes Kujundzic.
  • Volumes of Hope by Kimberly Sweet. University of Chicago Magazine (October 1998).
  • Congressional testimony before the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe by Andras Riedlmayer (April 4, 1995).
  • How to order the video "Killing Memory: Bosnia's Cultural Heritage and Its Destruction" by Andras Riedlmayer.
  • Views of the National Library after the firebombing by Dubravko Kakarigi.
  • The Hatred of Memory by Ivan Lovrenovic. New York Times, 28 May 1994.
  • Ongoing international projects for rebuilding Bosnian archives and libraries. (Updated continuously.)
  • Libraries and Museums in Bosnia-Herzegovina requesting assistance. (Updated continuously.)
  • Islamic Manuscripts: Bosnia-Herzegovina by Muhamed Zdralovic. World Survey of Islamic Manuscripts. Edited by Geoffrey J. Roper (London, 1992). Vol 1, pp. 87-110.
  • Some manuscripts from Bosnia survived the 1992-95 war because they were abroad. 284 manuscript codices (incl. 589 individual works: 393 Arabic, 117 Turkish and 88 Persian), collected by the Bosnian scholar Safvet-Beg Basagic (1870-1934), are preserved in the University Library in Bratislava, Slovakia.
  • It has been done before! The destruction and rebuilding of the Louvain Library in Belgium and the Angevin Archives in Naples.
  • The Bosniaca bibliography project of the University of Michigan.
  • The Bosnian Virtual Library Project, a cooperative effort of OCLC, Harvard University, and Yale University.
    Update.
    Building a Virtual Collection by Edward T. O'Neill, Jeffrey A. Young, and Robert Bremer.
    
• Destruction of architectural monuments and sites:
  • The Destruction of Stari Most by Suha Özkan. Development Network, no. 14 (Spring 1994), pp. 5-7.
  • Where Stari Most used to be by Sharon Machlis Gartenberg.
  • Efforts to rebuild the Mostar Bridge.
  • Architecture as the Target by Nicholas Adams. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 52 (December 1993).
  • Lists of destroyed religious and cultural monuments:
    • List 1
    • List 2
    • List 3
    • List 4
    • List 5
  • Annexes of the Final Report of UN Commission of Experts on War Crimes in the Former Yugoslavia , including Annex XI dealing with the destruction of cultural property: outlines applicable international law on cultural property, and cites as examples of offenses that should be prosecuted the 1991 attack on the walled city of Dubrovnik and the 1992-1993 attacks on the Old Bridge at Mostar.
• Pages on the protection of cultural property under international law:
  • The International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS)
  • International treaties for the protection of cultural property by the Multilaterals Project of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University.
  • Proceedings of the May 1994 Carnegie Symposium on the Destruction of Cultural Heritage in Bosnia .
  • Full text of the Dayton Peace Agreement , initialed in Dayton, Ohio on November 21, 1995.
• Pages concerning crimes against humanity:
  • IGC Balkans gopher .
  • International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia , including indictments against the Bosnian Serb leadership.
  • UN Commission of Experts on the Former Yugoslavia , Final Report and Annexes, prepared by Professor M. Cherif Bassiouni and the staff of the DePaul University College of Law and its International Human Rights Law Institute (IHRLI). (These are the reports the UN has tried to keep under cover by refusing to allocate funds to print and distribute them.)
  • Information on the Task Force on Indicted War Criminals , including members and endorsers.
  • Please sign! Petition calling for the arrest of indicted war criminals.
  • Arrest Now!, the campaign to apprehend war criminals in the former Yugoslavia. Includes the latest news on arrests, an interactive map which locates war criminals and NATO bases and ways to help support the campaign.
• Some other Bosnia-related web sites:
  • People Finder Service Intended to help in finding lost relatives, friends, family or other displaced persons from the war torn countries of former Yugoslavia.
  • How to help Bosnian universities and their libraries. Manuals for assistance to the various faculties and faculty libraries of the Universities of Sarajevo, Tuzla and Mostar-East; maintained and continually updated by WUS-Austria.
  • National Research Council report entitled Reconstructing Science, Engineering, and Higher Education in Bosnia-Hercegovina and Croatia , summary of a meeting held in May 1996 to explore how science, engineering, and higher education can contribute to long-term economic growth and social stability in Bosnia-Hercegovina and Croatia.
  • Site at Caltech (Including Culture page and an amazingly extensive list of CyberBosnia sites compiled by Ahmet Kirac and Ayhan Irfanoglu).
  • Site in the Netherlands (Including activities in Europe and another list of Bosnia-related web sites) by Frank Tiggelaar.
  • Site at George Mason University (Including "The Bosnian Virtual Field Trip").
  • The Legal Information Infrastructure for Bosnia-Hercegovina project at Villanova University Law School.
  • The Central and Eastern Europe Business Information Center (CEEBIC) in the Department of Commerce, the government's clearinghouse for information on the economic reconstruction efforts in Bosnia. (Including a list of over 1,000 reconstruction projects identified by the Bosnian government, details of multilateral financial assistance programs and business/procurement opportunities for U.S. firms, an economic background and a lot of other information.)
  • The Community of Bosnia home page. (Including the scholarship program and activities for the preservation of Bosnian culture.)
  • This Week in Bosnia-Herzegovina by the Bosnia Action Coalition.
  • BosNet archive compiled by Zeljko Bodulovic, Davor Wagner, and Nermin Zukic.
  • BosNet home page .
• Back to The Bosnian Manuscript Ingathering Project home page.