Bosnia-Serb+Genocide

Bosnian-Herzegovina Genocide


 *  Bosnian-Herzegovina Genocide (1992-1995) 200,000 deaths


 * The genocide was committed by the Serbs against the Muslims in Bosnia


 *  In April 1992, the government of the Yugoslav republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina declared its independence from Yugoslavia.


 * Throughout the next several years, Bosnian Serb forces, who also had help from the Serb dominated Yugoslav Army, targeted both Croatian civilians and Bosnian Muslims.


 * over 200,000 Muslim civilians were systematically murdered


 * More than 20,000 were missing and were thought of as dead


 * 2 million had become refugee


 * Under the command of General Ratko Mladic, Serb soldiers systematically selected and murdered close to 8,000 boys and men between the ages of twelve and 60


 * Slobodan Milosevic and Franjo Tudjman traveled to the U.S. on November 1, 1995, to talk peace at Wright-Patterson Air Force base in Ohio


 * A peace agreement was made after three weeks of negotiations. The terms of agreement split Bosnia into two main parts, now known as the Bosnian Serb Republic and the Muslim-Croat Federation.


 * The Serbs labeled there actions as “ethnic cleansing.”

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