A Village Destroyed May 14, 1999

A Village Destroyed May 14, 1999 published by Human Rights Center/University of California, Berkeley, CA, 2002. 1st Edition1st Printing. Paperback. Size 4to (up to 12'' tall). Condition: VG. Scratches on front cover, some edge wear, overall content excellent. 208 Pgs. ISBN 0520233034. LCCN 20001042309. Text by Fred Abrahams and Eric Stover. Photos by Gilles Peress. This book documents, in a manner that leaves no room for doubt or ambiguity, an account of a Serb massacre in the Kosovar towns of Cuska, Zahac and Pavljan. After an introduction by Human Rights Watch communications director Carroll Bogert, the book centers on a series of photos taken in the aftermath of the killings, showing fresh graves, massive displacement, bullet holes and trauma victims, along with a family photo album caked with mud and, elsewhere, a man pulling along his exhausted grandmother in a metal cart. The text clearly outlines the investigators' discovery process, which included showing to survivors photographs of soldiers that had been scanned into a laptop. A chapter called ''Self-Portraits'' shows pictures taken by Serbian soldiers of themselves (the undeveloped film was found in a field in Kosovo) backlit by fires and mayhem. Description text copyright 2010 BooksForComfort. Item ID 22469.