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They observe that reporting on the ethnic cleansing of the region has created some of the most lasting images of the Bosnian War, with the singling out of one ethnic group for death, torture and expulsion, alongside the photographs of internees at the Omarska camp resurrecting memories of the Nazi Holocaust. While the Bosnian Serbs' immediate ...
The Bosnian War [a] (Serbo-Croatian: Rat u Bosni i Hercegovini / Рат у Босни и Херцеговини) was an international armed conflict that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992 and 1995. The war is commonly seen as having started on 6 April 1992, following several earlier violent incidents.
The crimes committed in Prijedor have been subjected to 13 trials before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.Politicians, soldiers and police officers in the Serb SDS and crisis staff, including Milomir Stakić, Milan Kovačević, Radoslav Brđanin, ranging to the highest leaders including general Ratko Mladić, Bosnian Serb president Radovan Karadžić, and Serbian ...
The UN-backed International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) sentenced nine Serb officials for war crimes in Bosanski Šamac. Blagoje Simić was sentenced for crimes against humanity for persecutions based upon unlawful arrest and detention, cruel and inhumane treatment, forced labour, unlawful confinement under inhumane conditions, and deportation and forcible transfer. [19]
Now, as the country goes from one crisis to another, the three veterans feel it is their duty to warn of the horrors of war. Rizo Salkic "Talijan", Marko Zelic and Boro Jevtic, the Bosniak, Croat ...
On 12 July 1992, a total of 69 Bosnian Serb soldiers and civilians were killed in the villages of Zalazje and Sase in the municipality of Srebrenica, and Biljača and Zagoni in the municipality of Bratunac, after an attack by the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ARBiH). It occurred during the Bosnian War.
In January 2013, the Sarajevo-based Research and Documentation Center (RDC) published its final results on "the most comprehensive" research into Bosnia-Herzegovina's war casualties: The Bosnian Book of the Dead – a database that reveals "a minimum of" 97,207 names of Bosnia and Herzegovina's citizens killed and missing during the 1992–1995 ...
At the outset of the Bosnian War, Serb forces attacked the non-Serb civilian population in Eastern Bosnia.Once towns and villages were securely in their hands, Serb forces—i.e. the military, the police, the paramilitaries and, sometimes, even Serb villagers—applied the same pattern: Bosniak houses and apartments were systematically ransacked or burnt down while Bosniak civilians were ...