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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 ...
Mass-killings and persecution of Bosniaks and Bosnian Croats by Bosnian Serb forces in the Brčko area. Most victims were detained and killed in the Luka camp. [21] Vlasenica massacre: May–September 1992 Vlasenica: VRS, JNA: Bosniaks: 279 Bosnian Serb forces kill at least 279 Bosniaks after the takeover of Vlasenica. [22] Vidovice massacre: 2 ...
Serbs consider the Sarajevo wedding shooting, when a groom's father was killed on the 2nd day of the Bosnian independence referendum, 1 March 1992, as the first death of the war. [36] The Sijekovac killings of Serbs took place on 26 March and the Bijeljina massacre on 1–2 April. On 5 April, after protesters approached a barricade, a ...
The Bosnian Serbs' politicians pressured Serbs into leaving Sarajevo while the mixed statements of the Bosnian government caused a lack of confidence among Serb inhabitants. [122] Bosnian Serb extremists burned apartments and expelled Serbs who wanted to stay in these suburbs before the handover to the Bosnian government.
Slobodan Praljak (Croatian pronunciation: [slobǒdan prǎːʎak]; 2 January 1945 – 29 November 2017) was a Bosnian Croat war criminal who served in the Croatian Army and the Croatian Defence Council, an army of the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia, between 1992 and 1995.
The same day, the Bosnian Serb leadership declared the independence of the Serbian Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, later renamed Republika Srpska. Bosnia and Herzegovina was admitted into the UN on 22 May. [44] The ensuing Bosnian War left 100,000 dead; an additional two million were displaced. [45]
In the early 1990s, calls were made for legal action to be taken over the possibility of genocide having occurred in Bosnia. The ICTY set the precedent that rape in warfare is a form of torture. By 2011, it had indicted 161 people from all ethnic backgrounds for war crimes, [ 78 ] and heard evidence from over 4,000 witnesses. [ 79 ]