Cause Of Rights And Freedoms In The Yugoslavia War

Template for Run the Class Task

Name of selected event/topic: Yugoslavia Wars

Group members (strictly no more than 3): Tom, Luka

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Plan your lesson content and who is going to do what

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Identify any group issues early with your class teacher

Identify group issues in the group evaluation form

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Introduce topic: Introduction Slide

Engage students: ROLEPLAY

As I mentioned previously, the main tactic being used by the invading forces was a war crime in itself, a tactic in which invaders would get word out to their respective communities in towns and villages, telling them to leave immediately. Within days, the forces would converge on the towns and conduct a medieval style siege, in which over a long period of time the residence would be subject to extreme bombing and sniper fire. By the end of the siege, almost all residents would have either fled or been killed, leaving the town open for the invaders use, the survivors being executed This is an obvious breach of human rights, as targeting civilians is clearly not in the laws of war. On top of this main strategy, rape, torture and abuse of non combatants were commonplace. An example of these cases is in the town of Kalinovik, Bosnia, which became known as a “rape camp”. Initially, almost all of the Bosnian population from the town were cleansed, or pushed out of town. An account of a survivor, Ziba, a mother of two, recounts being held in a gymnasium along with around 100 other Bosnian women. Over the course of 26 days, almost all of the 100 women were raped repeatedly by Serbian military forces, often in front of their children. However, the most well known and perhaps the most atrocious act committed was the genocide or massacre of Srebrenica. The same tactics were applied here of sieging a town, however on a scale thus far unseen when compared to the remote country towns and villages sieged previously. Over 25,000 women and children were expelled and displaced from the town, and the leaders of the attack set about catching up to 15,000 Bosnians who had fled the town. Countless others were killed in the shelling or gunfire up until this point. The refugees sought shelter in a nearby UN camp, however, as there was