Christian Jennings is interviewed by Prospect magazine

‘Bosnia, writes Christian Jennings at the beginning of his new book, is “still struggling to come to terms with the events that took place from 1992 to 1995.” Central to the attempts to deal with the legacy of the war in the Balkans is the work of the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP), an organisation that, in 1999, took on the job of identifying the remains of the victims of that bloody conflict. In its mandate, the ICMP assumed the task of helping governments in the region “deal with the enormous problem of persons who had been killed or had gone missing as a result of wars, ethnic conflicts [and] human-rights abuses…”’

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Christian Jennings

Christian Jennings

  Christian Jennings is a British author and foreign correspondent, and the author of ten non-fiction books of modern history and current affairs. These include the acclaimed The Third Reich is Listening: Inside German Codebreaking 1939-1945, the first comprehensive account in English of Ge...More about Christian Jennings