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The Srebrenica massacre, [a] also known as the Srebrenica genocide, [b] [8] was the July 1995 genocidal killing [9] of more than 8,000 [10] Bosniak Muslim men and boys in and around the town of Srebrenica during the Bosnian War. [11]
On 18 December 1992, the U.N. General Assembly resolution 47/121 in its preamble deemed ethnic cleansing to be a form of genocide stating: [23] [24]. Gravely concerned about the deterioration of the situation in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina owing to intensified aggressive acts by the Serbian and Montenegrin forces to acquire more territories by force, characterized by a consistent ...
In June 2007, the Sarajevo-based Research and Documentation Center published extensive research on the Bosnian war deaths, also called The Bosnian Book of the Dead, a database that initially revealed a minimum of 97,207 names of Bosnia and Herzegovina's citizens confirmed as killed or missing during the 1992–1995 war.
Bosnian Serb forces kill around 100 Bosniak civilians. [50] [51] Bijeli Potok massacre: 1 June 1992 Bijeli Potok VRS: Bosniaks: 675 Serb forces killed 675 Bosnian Muslim men and boys within a week at Bijeli Potok and hid their bodies in mass graves throughout the Drina Valley. [52] Uzborak massacre: 13 June 1992 Uzborak landfill, Mostar: VRS ...
After a period of political and economic crisis in the 1980s, the constituent republics of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia split apart in the early 1990s. . Unresolved issues from the breakup caused a series of inter-ethnic Yugoslav Wars from 1991 to 2001 which primarily affected Bosnia and Herzegovina, neighbouring parts of Croatia and, some years later, K
The Bosnian government officially declared an end to the siege of Sarajevo on 29 February 1996, when Bosnian Serb forces left positions in and around the city. [98] More than 70,000 Sarajevan Serbs subsequently left the Muslim-controlled districts of the city and moved to the Republika Srpska, taking all of their belongings with them.
Bosnia is going through its worst political crisis since its 1990s war, with a peace envoy warning this week that the U.S.-sponsored peace deal that ended the conflict is at risk of unravelling ...
At approximately 15:00 on 27 February 1993, a group of uniformed men entered the office of the Štrpci railway station and demanded that the oncoming train from Belgrade be stopped. [3] The uniformed men were members of the "Avengers" (Osvetnici) unit of the White Eagles Bosnian-Serb militia, commanded by Milan Lukić. The men entered the train ...