The Bosnian Genocide 1992-1995
The Bosnian genocide was called to be the worst genocide since the Holocaust. I killed over 100,000 people many of who were Bosniaks 8,000 men and boys were killed at a later date. The Bosnian genocide lasted from 1992 to 1995 during the civil war and was ended by the Dayton accords by the leaders of Bosnian, Serbian and Croatian citizens. Bosnia’s capital is named Sarajevo and is a widely visited place in Bosnia to this day and was the main place many people had died.
1992
The Bosnians government divided into three political parties the Serb, Croatian and Bosnian. After World war II the states of bosnia were a part of the Federal People’s Republic of Yugoslavia. Bosnia’s genocide started because the yugoslav republic wanted its independence in april 1992. Bosnian serbs blamed Bosniak and croatians for horrible crimes. Josip Broz Tito the yugoslav leader died and things quickly went downhill. Fuel was added to the fire when Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic raised into power. Elections at an earlier date (1990) ended up in an alliance government split between parties representing, Bosniak, Serb and Croatian. Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and his Serbian Democratic group split from the government and set up their own “Serbian National Assembly.”
On March 3, 1992 after a general vote by voters on a political question that has been referred to them for a direct decision President Izetbegovic announced Bosnia’s independence. In May 1992, two days after the U.S and the Europeans recognized Bosnia’s independence. Bosnian Serb forces launched their first attack with bombs, shells, and other missiles on Sarajevo kicking out Bosniak citizens by a process called ethnic cleansing, which is kicking people out of a certain area using violence such as murder, rape, torture and forced displacement.
On March 3, 1992 after a general vote by voters on a political question that has been referred to them for a direct decision President Izetbegovic announced Bosnia’s independence. In May 1992, two days after the U.S and the Europeans recognized Bosnia’s independence. Bosnian Serb forces launched their first attack with bombs, shells, and other missiles on Sarajevo kicking out Bosniak citizens by a process called ethnic cleansing, which is kicking people out of a certain area using violence such as murder, rape, torture and forced displacement.
1993
In May 1993, the U.N. Council made the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (icty) and were the first to prosecute genocide and other war crimes. Towards the end of 1993 Serb forces were in control of about three-quarters of bosnia,. The U.N. in 1933 had called Srebrenica, Zepa and Gorazde cities in bosnia “safe havens” and were to be protected.
Almost 83000 Bosnian Muslim boys and men who had looked for the safe heaven at Srebrenica were killed by members of the Serbian republic army. Bosnian Serbs continued at Srebrenica separating the Bosniaks Sending women to bosnian territory where Some of the women were raped or assaulted sexually, while the men and boys were killed immediately or sent to mass killing sites. Bosniaks killed by Serb forces at Srebrenica are from around 7,000 to more than 8,000 people.
Almost 83000 Bosnian Muslim boys and men who had looked for the safe heaven at Srebrenica were killed by members of the Serbian republic army. Bosnian Serbs continued at Srebrenica separating the Bosniaks Sending women to bosnian territory where Some of the women were raped or assaulted sexually, while the men and boys were killed immediately or sent to mass killing sites. Bosniaks killed by Serb forces at Srebrenica are from around 7,000 to more than 8,000 people.
1994
NATO made air strikes against Bosnian Serbs to stop them in 1994.
1995
By summer 1995, three towns in Bosnia Srebrenica, Zepa and Gorazde were still under control by the Bosnian government .After Bosnian Serbs took control in Zepa that month and exploded a bomb in a market, the international community began to respond more intensely after the Serbs refused to make peace from a U.N. threat, Nato joined with Bosnian and Croatian forces for three weeks of retaliation in August 1995. Because the U.N caused many problems for serbia's economy, trade and army, Milosevic decided to talk. In November 1995 the United States supported peace talks that created a united Bosnia. Radovan Karadzic and the Bosnian Serb military commander, were two of whom who were charged for a serious crime by the international Criminal Tribunal.
Dayton Accords
The Dayton accord was a peace agreement made in November of 1995 by the presidents of Bosnia Serbia and the Croatians it made Bosnia a single state made up of two parts ¨the Bosniak-Croat federation and the Bosnian Serb Republic, with Sarajevo remaining as the undivided capital city¨
2006
The ICTY charged more than 160 people with charges of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. Former President Slobodan Milosevic goes on trial and gets charged with 66 counts of genocide and war crimes in Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo. Slobodan Milosevic was dead in his cell in 2006 and in 2007 the International Court of Justice gave its ruling in a “historic civil lawsuit brought by Bosnia against Serbia” it punished those who committed it, but never said Serbia was guilty of genocide.
Aftermath
Survivors and others who were affected by the genocide placed 11,451 empty red chairs on a main street in Sarajevo. The chairs with flowers placed on them by loved ones represented those who died and remembered the 20th anniversary of the genocide on April 6th.