My War Criminal by Jessica Stern

Author:Jessica Stern
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2019-12-09T16:00:00+00:00

NOTES

1.Serbian Epics, dir. Paweł Pawlikowski, documentary (BBC Films, 1992).

2.Robert J. Donia, Radovan Karadžić: Architect of the Bosnian Genocide (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015), p. 34.

3.Marc Bennetts, “Eduard Limonov Interview: Political Rebel and Vladimir Putin’s Worst Nightmare,” Guardian, December 11, 2010, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/dec/12/eduard-limonov-interview-putin-nightmare; Julia Ioffe, “‘Limonov,’ by Emmanuel Carrère,” New York Times, November 25, 2014, https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/30/books/review/limonov-by-emmanuel-carrere.html?mcubz=0&_r=0.

4.Ivan Nechepurenko, “How Nationalism Came to Dominate Russia’s Political Mainstream,” Moscow Times, August 3, 2014, https://themoscowtimes.com/articles/how-nationalism-came-to-dominate-russias-political-mainstream-37957.

5.Chris Landreth, email correspondence with author, July 3, 2017. See also Marc Bennetts, “Eduard Limonov Interview: Political Rebel and Vladimir Putin’s Worst Nightmare,” Guardian, December 11, 2010, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/dec/12/eduard-limonov-interview-putin-nightmare.

6.Vuk Karadžić defined the division of ballads back in 1824. According to him, men’s ballads were accompanied by gusle, the most important element being the moral of the stories they tell. They were most popular in Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and southwestern Serbia. Women’s ballads were focused on melodic properties and romantic motives. Mostly sung by women, they were also sung by men, mostly unmarried ones. Biljana Dojčinović-Nešić, “In Search of the Mother’s Voice: The Diary of Milica Stojadinović Srpkinja,” in Marcel Cornis-Pope and John Neubauer, eds., History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe, Vol. 4, Types and Stereotypes (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2010), p. 155.

7.Emmanuel Carrère, Limonov: The Outrageous Adventures of the Radical Soviet Poet Who Became a Bum in New York, a Sensation in France, and a Political Antihero in Russia, trans. John Lambert (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014), p. 217.

8.Emmanuel Carrère, Limonov: The Outrageous Adventures of the Radical Soviet Poet Who Became a Bum in New York, a Sensation in France, and a Political Antihero in Russia, trans. John Lambert (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014), p. 217.

9.For the dangers associated with reflexively siding with the weaker side and the “responsibility to protect,” see Alan J. Kuperman, “The Moral Hazard of Humanitarian Intervention: Lessons from the Balkans,” International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 52, No. 1 (April 2008).

10.Two reliable sources, Bogoljub Kočović and Vladimir Žerjavić, put total Yugoslav deaths at 1,014,000 and 1,027,000, respectively. Of these, between 487,000 and 530,000 deaths were Serbs. Philip J. Cohen, Serbia’s Secret War: Propaganda and the Deceit of History (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1996), pp. 109–110. See also: Srdjan Bogosavljević, “The Unresolved Genocide,” in Nebojša Popov and Drinka Gojković, eds., The Road to War in Serbia: Trauma and Catharsis (Budapest, New York: Central European University Press, 1999), pp. 146–160.

According to political scientist Vladimir Petrović, the ethnic Serb population in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia was no less than 40 percent. For more on this, see Ivo Banac, The National Question in Yugoslavia, Origins, History, Politics (2nd ed.). Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1992. p. 58.

11.Put another way, of the three major nationalities (Muslims, Croats, and Serbs), the Serbs sustained the most casualties compared to their total population.

12.While the exact numbers of people killed by the Ustasha are not available, Žerjavić reports that the estimated number of civilian losses in the NDH amount to 316,000 dead. This number encompasses Serb deaths (217,000),

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