The Bosnian Genocide happened on 1995 in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 1991,
Yugoslavia broke the ethnic lines. The republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina declared independence in 1992 and the region became the main focus of fighting. The Serbs went after the Bosnian and Croatian civilians in a campaign that involved ethnic cleansing. They used former Yugoslavian military equipment, they surrounded Sarajevo. There troops hid in the hills and shot civilians as they were trying to get food and water. There were lots of executions, concentration camps, rape, and sexual violence. The “siege of Sarajevo” is known as one of the most important factors of Yugoslavia’s breakup, which involved thousands of people being killed over the years.
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The United Nations tried to have six safe areas, which included Srebrenica and Sarajevo, but it did not happen. The peacekeepers did not have the power to protect the people who were looking for shelter and Sarajevo fell under the Serbs control. In July 1995, the Serb forces went to the town of Srebrenica and began bombing it. During this moment, they were only protected by 450 Dutch peacekeepers armed with not too much fuel and expired ammunition. Their force was so weak that the Dutch commander said that they were no longer military approved. The peacekeepers asked for support from the NATO, but they were denied. The Srebrenica fell to the Serbs in one day.
General Mladic, the head of Serb forces, kicked out 25,000 women and children from the town, while the Serb forces tried to hunt down 15,000 Bosniak men who had tried to escape to Bosnia. 3,000 men were killed during the escape. Very many Bosnians tried to find shelter at the United Nations base in Potocari, but were not there for very long. The Serb forces had found them in the afternoon and the next day, they were buses at Potocari to take them away. This separated the children and women from the men.
The Serb troops forced the Dutch peacekeepers to surrender over their equipment, so
Bosnia had been part of Austria-Hungary since 1908 but it was claimed by neighboring Serbia. Austria-Hungary blamed Serbia for the assassination and on July 28th declared war. What began as the third Balkan war turned into a European war in two years? On August 4th Germany invaded neutral Belgium on its way to France it intended to knock France out of the war before turning its attention to Russia. Britain had guanteed to defend Belgium’s neutral zone and it declared war on Germany. The Great War had begun” (WWI Book
The 1990s were a period of extreme ethnic conflict in the former nation of Yugoslavia. In 1992, Bosnia-Herzegovina passed a referendum for independence, which was not met with an equal enthusiasm amongst the republic's population. The group most against this independence was the Serbian minority, who were convinced by leaders such as Slobodan Milosovic and psychiatrist Jovan Raskovic in the idea of a "greater Serbia." Serbs were told they needed to dominate the surrounding Croats and Muslims based on their psychological superiority. Serb fighters carried out vicious campaigns of ethnic cleansing, killing over 100,000 people with another 1.5 million being forced from their homes to created predominantly Serbian areas. In 1995 Bosnia Croatia and Serbia signed the Dayton peace accords and focus shifted towards Kosovo, where discord had been emerging between the Albanians and the Serbs.
Then in 1992, Bosnia declared its independence from Yugoslavia. Soon after, the Bosnian Serbians wanted to take power in Bosnia in April 1992, and wanted to kill the Muslim population of Bosnia. The Bosnian genocide was a war that started in 1992 and ended in 1995. The purpose of learning about genocide is that we can be aware of what a genocide is, considering that there are many different definitions of genocide.
The United Nations was formed on October 24, 1945, after the Holocaust, to prevent genocide from ever happening again. A cartoon depicted by Michael Sutherland illustrated the unsuccessful intent of the United Nations. The United Nations is pictured standing over many graves of countries and groups that have suffered from genocide. However, many genocides have taken place since the formation of the United Nations (i.e. the Bosnian genocide). Both genocides began as simple misconception or dislike between peoples but ended in tragic and unnecessary murder. The Holocaust and the Bosnian genocide had many similarities and differences in their course of events. Unfortunately, genocides like the Jewish Holocaust and the Bosnian genocide still continue to happen today.
Unfortunately this upset the native Bosnian people. So, although the United States feels obligated to help the Bosnian Cause, they may be worsening the situation with their involvement, both there and in the U.S There are two sides to this story. The first is the opinion that the United States should completely withdraw from Bosnia. The other opinion is that the United States should go headlong and give Bosnia their full support, and commit more troops and more supplies to the Bosnian Cause. There are some positive things done by the United States in Bosnia. The presence of U.S troops did bring temporary peace to the area. Although the peace is purely an act, it does give leaders time to talk and plan without worrying about their people dying. Also, the United States presence in Bosnia helped to eradicate the most horrific problem in Bosnia, large Serbian concentration camps and mass Albanian genocide.
policies of President Trudjman. Ethnic Serbs were opposing Slobodan. Milosevic. The case of Bosnia is slightly more complex with both. ethnic Serbs and ethnic Croats identifying themselves as Bosnians.
A new leader arose by the late 1980s, a Serbian named Slobodan Milosevic, a former Communist who had turned to nationalism and religious hatred to gain power. He began by inflaming long-standing tensions between Serbs and Muslims in the independent provence of Kosovo. Orthodox Christian Serbs in Kosovo were in the minority and claimed they were being mistreated by the Albanian Muslim majority. Serbian-backed political unrest in Kosovo eventually led to its loss of independence and domination by Milosevic. In June 1991, Slovenia and Croatia both declared their independence from Yugoslavia soon resulting in civil war. The national army of Yugoslavia, now made up of Serbs controlled by Milosevic, stormed into Slovenia but failed to subdue the separatists there and withdrew after only ten days of fighting. Milosevic quickly lost interest in Slovenia, a country with almost no Serbs. Instead, he turned his attention to Croatia, a Catholic country where Orthodox Serbs made up 12 percent of the population. During World War II, Croatia had been a pro-Nazi state led by Ante Pavelic and his fascist Ustasha Party. Serbs living in Croatia as well as Jews had been the targets of widespread Ustasha massacres.
In the late 1980s through the 1990s, the republics of the former Yugoslavia experienced serious ethnic tensions, escalating into all-out war which resulted in some of the worst war crimes committed in Europe since World War II. In 1993, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia was formed with the goal of punishing perpetrators who carried out acts of genocide and crimes against humanity in the wars in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina and to prevent any such atrocities from ever occurring again. One of the most significant and high-profile trials of this tribunal was that of Slobodan Milosevic, the former president of both Serbia and the former Yugoslavia, who was accused of committing crimes against humanity, war crimes, and abuses of power and corruption. Milosevic died in 2006, and his trial was never concluded. Whether or not he would have been convicted of these crimes is a subject of debate.
Yugoslavia came to be because of a group of people wanted their own nation, and worked out as the Allies of Britain wondered what could come of dominating the Austro-Hungarians. The beginning of Yugoslavia is well known, but why did the country fall apart completely? As stated in the thesis, there was always a sense of nationality and diversity between the republics of the nation. The six never came together as one nation, and if there would have, many of Yugoslavia 's conflicts would have ceased to happen.
The Rwandan Genocide was a terrible event in history caused by a constantly weakening relationship between two groups of people. The country of Rwanda is located in Africa and consists of multiple groups of people. Majority of Rwanda is Hutu, while a smaller amount of people are Tutsis. The genocide started due to multiple events that really stretched the relationship between the two groups to its end. One of the starting factors was at the end of World War 1. Rwanda was a German colony but then was given to Belgium “who favored the minority Tutsis over the Hutus, exacerbated[exacerbating] the tendency of the few to oppress the many”(History.com). This created a feeling of anger towards the Tutsis, because they had much more power then Hutus.
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The war that happened in Bosnia was a terrible crime. The Serbs took over land and killed innocent civilians. All the Bosnians wanted was the right to have freedom, and the Serbs took that away from them. Many were affected by this cruel war, which has changed people’s perspectives on things. “Television and newspapers show us the pictures: the destruction, the injured survivors, the dead.We rarely get glimpses of survivors st...
The Pakistani government started their military attack on Bangladesh on March 25th, 1971. Some of the targets for the attack were the university campus, the police headquarters, and other areas with high Hindu populations (Jahan 254). Those who were in power in Pakistan at the time believed that the intellectuals and the students were the leaders of the Bengali nationalist movement, the main supporters were the Hindus and the urban lumpenproletariat, and that the leaders in any armed struggle could be the Bengali police and army officials (Jahan 54). Hundreds of unarmed civilians were killed by the army operations in the Dhaka, the capital of Bengal, on the university campus, the slums, and the old city where Hindus primarily lived. The news of these killings quickly spread throughout the country.
8,000 muslims were found in a warehouse dead from being bombed and shot and the Hague wishes to give a life sentence, forever rotting away.The Muslims and Croats were driven out of their homes and the people from the concentration camps were not acting up but brutally murdered. On July 1995 the Srebrenica happened and over 70,000 people were killed and Ronovan says that there has been no evidence claiming that he was involved. The Hague thinks differently, they believe that he could have messed up something or changed something so that the evidence would not show.
From its birth in 1918 to its death in the 1990’s, Yugoslavia has always been a whole. Yugoslavia was kept together by it’s diplomacy and their good reputation and achievements during the administration led by Tito. As a result of his death, neighbors that lived in peace for decades turned on each other, ethnic hatred was occuring and republics were declaring independence one after the other. The country was gradually falling apart. There were many reasons for the breakup of Yugoslavia but one of the most important one was realism which basically deals with politics.