Bosnian Genocide. Perpetrators When: April 1992- December 1995 Who: Bosnian Serbs, Slobodan...
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- Bosnian Genocide
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- Perpetrators When: April 1992- December 1995 Who: Bosnian
Serbs, Slobodan Milosevic Slobodan Milosevic (1941- 2006) President
of Serbia Radovan Karadzic (1945-present) Supreme Commander of the
Bosnian Serb Army Ratko Mladic (1942-present) Bosnian Serb military
leader
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- Victims Casualties: Over 100,000 (between 130,000 and 150,000)
Causes: Execution, torture, exhaustion Targets: Primarily Bosnian
Muslims (65% Muslims, 22% Serbs, 8% Croats, and 5% Others) Serbs
Orthodox Christians Croats Catholics Bosniaks Muslims Refugees:
Hundreds of thousands
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- Srebrenica Genocide Bosnian Serb forces seize Srebrenica on
July 11, 1995 In a period of one week, Bosnian Serb forces executed
7,000 to 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys.
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- Srebrenica Genocide The worst massacre that occurred in Europe
since the Holocaust Srebrenica victims still being exhumed from
mass graves across the region
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- Summary of Genocide - Timeline 1991 1991: Republics of Slovenia
and Croatia declared independence from Yugoslavia July 11-19, 1995:
Srebrenica genocide: Bosnian Serb forced killed over 8,000 Bosnian
Muslim men and boys. Summer 1995: Bosnian Serb army prepared to
capture and cleanse the 3 towns in eastern Bosnia, declared as safe
havens by the international community in 1993. 1996 1992: Bosnias
independence from Yugoslavia recognized by the US and European
Union December 1995: Peace agreement negotiated in Dayton, Ohio
known as the Dayton Accords August 1995: NATO intervention: 3 weeks
bombing on Bosnian Serb positions May 25, 1993: The UN Security
Council establishes the ICTY
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- Whats Happened Since? December 1995 Dayton Accords: Brought
peace to Bosnia and created to entities, the Republic of Srpska and
Bosnian Federation 2001 The ICTY ruled that genocide had occurred
in Srebrenica. 2007 The International Court of Justice determined
that Serbia violated the Genocide Convention by not doing enough to
prevent genocide in Srebrenica. February 2015 The United States
moves to deport at least 150 Bosnians living in the US who were
believed to have taken part in the conflict.
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- Resources Human Rights Watch:
http://www.hrw.org/europecentral-asia/bosnia-and-herzegovinahttp://www.hrw.org/europecentral-asia/bosnia-and-herzegovina
War Crimes in Bosnia-Hercegovina (Volume II) report:
http://www.hrw.org/reports/1993/04/01/war-crimes-bosnia-hercegovina-volume-ii
http://www.hrw.org/reports/1993/04/01/war-crimes-bosnia-hercegovina-volume-ii
Milosevic to Face Bosnian Genocide Charges press release:
http://www.hrw.org/news/2001/12/10/milosevic-face-bosnian-genocide-charges
http://www.hrw.org/news/2001/12/10/milosevic-face-bosnian-genocide-charges
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum:
http://www.ushmmorg/confront- genocide/cases/bosnia-herzegovina
http://www.ushmmorg/confront- genocide/cases/bosnia-herzegovina
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY):
www.icty.org www.icty.org Justice Report:
www.justice-report.comwww.justice-report.com