Victims
1992 Bosnia-Herzegovina Break off from Yugoslavia. Bosnian Serb forces backed by the Yugoslav army start attacking Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims) as well as Croatians. This is the worst genocide in Europe since world war two. In Bosnia in 1991 with the population at some 4 million people the Bosniaks took up the majority of the population at 44%, The Serbs who were committing genocide were at 33%, and the Croatians at 17%. Just two days after Bosnia is recognized as their own country they start attacking the Bosniaks. They say they are trying to create the “Greater Serbia” that they had been envisioning for some time now. The U.N. set up “safe havens” that’s were disarmed so when the Serbs did come they took over fairly easily. They sent the women and girls on Bosnian controlled territory where they were raped or sexually assaulted. The men and boys who were left were murdered immediately. At just one of the 3 “safe havens” (Srebrenica) 7,000-8,000 People were killed. In the same month they captured Zepa and set off a bomb in a crowded market. Radovan Karadzic (Bosnian Serbs Leader), and the Bosnian Serb military commander, General Ratko Mladic, were the first two people to be prosecuted of Genocide and other war crimes. In the end more than 160 people were charged with similar war crimes. The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was the group doing the charging against the perpetrators (Staff H, 2009).
1992 Bosnia-Herzegovina Break off from Yugoslavia. Bosnian Serb forces backed by the Yugoslav army start attacking Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims) as well as Croatians. This is the worst genocide in Europe since world war two. In Bosnia in 1991 with the population at some 4 million people the Bosniaks took up the majority of the population at 44%, The Serbs who were committing genocide were at 33%, and the Croatians at 17%. Just two days after Bosnia is recognized as their own country they start attacking the Bosniaks. They say they are trying to create the “Greater Serbia” that they had been envisioning for some time now. The U.N. set up “safe havens” that’s were disarmed so when the Serbs did come they took over fairly easily. They sent the women and girls on Bosnian controlled territory where they were raped or sexually assaulted. The men and boys who were left were murdered immediately. At just one of the 3 “safe havens” (Srebrenica) 7,000-8,000 People were killed. In the same month they captured Zepa and set off a bomb in a crowded market. Radovan Karadzic (Bosnian Serbs Leader), and the Bosnian Serb military commander, General Ratko Mladic, were the first two people to be prosecuted of Genocide and other war crimes. In the end more than 160 people were charged with similar war crimes. The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was the group doing the charging against the perpetrators (Staff H, 2009).