Introduction

At least 10,000 Rohingya civilians were killed in the Myanmar genocide in 2017, while more than 700,000 were forced to flee from their burned villages and homes (Parvaz, 2018). For nearly four years, beginning in late 1991, Serb forces carried out a campaign of violent ethnic cleansing and genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina, killing an estimated 100,000 people, 80% of whom were Bosniak. Yet, since the United Nations adopted the 1951 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, only a few atrocities have been recognized as genocides. For survivors of genocides and the generations that follow them, the memory taken away can still be perceived as a missing part of oneself. The chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book.