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any different ethnic and religious groups had resided together for 40 years under That a systematic destruction of a people
s repressive communist government, this changed when the country began to never happen…
ing the fall of communism in the early 1990s. The provinces of Slovenia and
ared independence, and war quickly followed between Serbia and these If you believe…
epublics. Ethnic tensions were brought to the forefront, and people who had That too many of our children are immers
ully for years as neighbors turned against each other and took up arms. When culture of violence and intolerance…

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mpted to secede, Serbia – under Slobodan Miloševic’s leadership – invaded with If you believe…
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April 1992, Serbia set out
y cleanse” Bosnian Upcoming Events for Educators
systematically removing
Muslims, known as
erbia, together with ethnic
bs, attacked Bosniaks with
oslavian military
nd surrounded Sarajevo,
ity. Many Bosniaks were
oncentration camps,
en and girls were
ly gang-raped and other
re tortured, starved and

United Nations (UN) Security Council declared that Sarajevo, Goradze,

nd other Muslim enclaves were to be safe areas, protected by a contingent of
epers. But in July 1995, Serbs committed the largest massacre in Europe since
II in one such area, Srebrenica. An estimated 23,000 women, children and
le were put on buses and driven to Muslim-controlled territory, while 8,000
men were detained and slaughtered. The so-called safe area of Srebrenica fell
ngle shot fired by the UN.

TO initiated air strikes against Bosnian Serbs to stop the attacks. In December
ed negotiations in Dayton, Ohio (The Dayton Peace Accords) ended the conflict
nd a force was created to maintain the ceasefire. Since the end of the conflict,
onal Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia (ICTY) at The Hague has charged more
sons. Convictions have included Serb, Croat and Bosniaks, though Serbians and
bs have faced the majority of charges. In 2001, former-President Miloševic was
t he died in his cell in 2006. Radovan Karadžic, the supreme commander of the
b armed forces, was captured in 2008, and is being tried in The Hague on
arges. Ratko Mladic, chief of staff of the Bosnian Serb Army, was captured in
nd is charged with 11 counts, including genocide and crimes against humanity.

urces on This Topic

nocide: Modern Crimes Against Humanity,” by Brendan January

Myth of Ethnic War: Serbia and Croatia in the 1990s,” by V.P. Ganon
Fall of Yugoslavia,” by Misha Glenny
nocide in Bosnia: The Policy of Ethnic Cleansing,” by Norman Cigar
ocide Watch
dercide.Org
national Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia

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