Bosnian Genocide

Perpetrators
When: April 1992- December 1995
Who: Bosnian Serbs, Slobodan Milosevic

Radovan
Karadzic
(1945-present)
Supreme
Commander of the

Slobodan
Milosevic (19412006)
President of Serbia

Ratko Mladic
(1942-present)
Bosnian Serb
military leader

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

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.

Srebrenica Genocide

The worst massacre that occurred in

Europe since the Holocaust

Srebrenica victims still being exhumed
from mass graves across the region

Summary of Genocide Timeline

May 25, 1993:
The UN Security
1991: Republics Council
of Slovenia and
establishes the
Croatia declared ICTY
independence
from Yugoslavia

19
91
1992: Bosnias
independence
from Yugoslavia
recognized by the
US and European
Union

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.

December
1995: Peace
agreement
negotiated in
Dayton, Ohio
known as the
1996
Dayton Accords

August 1995:
NATO
intervention: 3
weeks bombing
on Bosnian Serb
positions

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.

Resources
Human Rights Watch: http://

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-vol
umeii
Milosevic to Face Bosnian Genocide Charges press
release: 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
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
(ICTY): www.icty.org
Justice Report: www.justice-report.com