Anthropological analysis of the Second World War skeletal remains from three karst sinkholes located in southern Croatia
| Autor: | Ivan Grujić, Željana Bašić, Ivana Kružić, Antonio Alujević, Ivan Jerković, Kristijan Bečić, Gordana Jambrešić |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent World War II Croatia Context (language use) Wounds Nonpenetrating Bone and Bones Pathology and Forensic Medicine Young Adult 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Blunt Humans Medicine 0601 history and archaeology 030212 general & internal medicine geography 060101 anthropology geography.geographical_feature_category business.industry Medical jurisprudence Forensic anthropology social sciences 06 humanities and the arts General Medicine Middle Aged Karst forensic science forensic anthropology legal medicine skeletal trauma WWS execution Archaeology humanities Body Remains Forensic Anthropology Female Wounds Gunshot Lethality War Crimes War crime business Law Demography |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine. 44:63-67 |
| ISSN: | 1752-928X |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jflm.2016.09.001 |
| Popis: | Although in the cases of war crimes the main effort goes to the identification of victims, it is crucial to consider the execution event as a whole. Thus, the goal of the research was to determine the trauma type and probable cause of death on skeletal remains of civilians executed by partisans from WWS found in the three karst sinkholes and to explain the context in which the injuries occurred. We determined biological profiles, pathological conditions, traumas, and assessed their lethality. Nineteen skeletons were found, 68.4% had, at least, one perimortem trauma, classified as lethal/lethal if untreated in 69.2% cases. The type of execution and administered violence showed to be age and health dependent: elderly and diseased were executed with the intention to kill, by the gunshot facing victims, whilst the more violent behavior expressed towards younger and healthy individuals was indicated by the higher frequency of blunt force trauma. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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