The Research and Documentation Center Sarajevo (RDC), () was an NGO based in

Sarajevo Sarajevo ( ), ; ''see Names of European cities in different languages (Q–T)#S, names in other languages'' is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with a population of 2 ...

Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina, sometimes known as Bosnia-Herzegovina and informally as Bosnia, is a country in Southeast Europe. Situated on the Balkans, Balkan Peninsula, it borders Serbia to the east, Montenegro to the southeast, and Croatia to th ...

, partly funded by the Norwegian government that aimed to gather facts, documents, and data on

genocide Genocide is violence that targets individuals because of their membership of a group and aims at the destruction of a people. Raphael Lemkin, who first coined the term, defined genocide as "the destruction of a nation or of an ethnic group" by ...

war crime A war crime is a violation of the laws of war that gives rise to individual criminal responsibility for actions by combatants in action, such as intentionally killing civilians or intentionally killing prisoners of war, torture, taking hostage ...

s, and

human rights violations Human rights are universally recognized moral principles or norms that establish standards of human behavior and are often protected by both national and international laws. These rights are considered inherent and inalienable, meaning t ...

in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It described itself as an independent,

non-governmental A non-governmental organization (NGO) is an independent, typically nonprofit organization that operates outside government control, though it may get a significant percentage of its funding from government or corporate sources. NGOs often focus ...

non-profit A nonprofit organization (NPO), also known as a nonbusiness entity, nonprofit institution, not-for-profit organization, or simply a nonprofit, is a non-governmental (private) legal entity organized and operated for a collective, public, or so ...

, professional and nonpartisan institution. RDC investigated issues regardless of the ethnic, political, religious, social, or

racial Race is a categorization of humans based on shared physical or social qualities into groups generally viewed as distinct within a given society. The term came into common usage during the 16th century, when it was used to refer to groups of va ...

affiliation of the victims. The Center was made up of independent members,

intellectuals An intellectual is a person who engages in critical thinking, research, and Human self-reflection, reflection about the nature of reality, especially the nature of society and proposed solutions for its normative problems. Coming from the wor ...

and professionals from different academic disciplines. All of RDC's documents (

witness In law, a witness is someone who, either voluntarily or under compulsion, provides testimonial evidence, either oral or written, of what they know or claim to know. A witness might be compelled to provide testimony in court, before a grand jur ...

statements, photo and video material, etc.) have been made available to the

International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was a body of the United Nations that was established to prosecute the war crimes in the Yugoslav Wars, war crimes that had been committed during the Yugoslav Wars and to tr ...

(ICTY) in

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, as well as to the

Bosnia Bosnia and Herzegovina, sometimes known as Bosnia-Herzegovina and informally as Bosnia, is a country in Southeast Europe. Situated on the Balkans, Balkan Peninsula, it borders Serbia to the east, Montenegro to the southeast, and Croatia to th ...

n courts, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), scientific institutions and the

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''The Bosnian Book of the Dead''

In January 2013, the RDC published its final research on Bosnia-Herzegovina's war casualties, titled ''The Bosnian Book of the Dead''. This database includes 97,207 confirmed names of Bosnia and Herzegovina's citizens, killed during the 1992–1995 war, with an additional 5,100 unconfirmed names. An international team of experts evaluated the findings before they were released. The head of the ICTY Demographic Unit, Ewa Tabeu, called it "the largest existing database on Bosnian war victims".Research and Documentation Center: Rezultati istraživanja "Ljudski gubici '91–'95"
Of the 97,207 casualties documented by 2013: * 60% were soldiers, 40% civilians * 90% were male * 62% were

Bosniak The Bosniaks (, Cyrillic script, Cyrillic: Бошњаци, ; , ) are a South Slavs, South Slavic ethnic group native to the Southeast European historical region of Bosnia (region), Bosnia, today part of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and who sha ...

s, 25% Bosnian Serbs, and just over 8%

Croat The Croats (; , ) are a South Slavs, South Slavic ethnic group native to Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and other neighboring countries in Central Europe, Central and Southeastern Europe who share a common Croatian Cultural heritage, ancest ...

s * Of civilian victims, 82% were Bosniaks, 10% Bosnian Serbs, and 6.5% Bosnian Croats, with a small number of

Jews Jews (, , ), or the Jewish people, are an ethnoreligious group and nation, originating from the Israelites of History of ancient Israel and Judah, ancient Israel and Judah. They also traditionally adhere to Judaism. Jewish ethnicity, rel ...

, Roma and others., pp. 96–98 The percentage of civilian victims would probably have been higher had survivors not reported their loved-ones as "soldiers" to access

social services Social services are a range of public services intended to provide support and assistance towards particular groups, which commonly include the disadvantaged. Also available amachine-converted HTML They may be provided by individuals, private and i ...

and other post-mortem benefits.

''Atlas of Bosnian War Crimes''

''Atlas of Bosnian War Crimes'' () is online resource developed through outsourcing data and documented evidences collected by IDC (RDC) and other sources, and using Google Earth technology, with a precise information and geo-locations of all documented war-crimes, civilian and military casualties, and destroyed and damaged properties, during the 1992-96 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is available for (re)search via Internet ''(see url in Infobox and External links)''.

References

External links

Bosanski atlas ratnih zločina / Atlas of Bosnian War Crimes
(successor organisation and online platform) * {{cite web , url=http://www.birn.eu.com/en/88/10/3377/ , title=JUSTICE REPORT: Bosnia's Book of the Dead , publisher=Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) , date=2007-06-21

Human rights organizations based in Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnian genocide