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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 ...
About 675 Bosniak men and boys, from the multiple villages around Zvornik, were separated from their families by Serb forces, and slaughtered within a week at Bijeli Potok and their bodies hidden in mass graves throughout the Drina Valley. As of May 2020, the remains of about 245 of the victims have yet to be found. [2]
Bosnian Serb forces killed 29 Bosniak men and boys. [27] Bradina massacre: 25–27 May 1992 Bradina: ARBiH, HVO: Serbs: 48 Bosniak and Croat forces kill 48 Serb civilians during an attack on the Serbian village of Bradina. [28] Ferhadija street massacre: 27 May 1992 Sarajevo: VRS (uncomfirmed) [29] Bosniaks, Croats: 26
Bosnia and Herzegovina portal; Pages in category "Bosnian masculine given names" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 201 total.
Bosnia and Herzegovina's ethnic groups—the Bosniaks, Bosnian Serbs and Bosnian Croats—lived peacefully together from 1878 until the outbreak of World War I in 1914, before which intermittent tensions between the three groups were mostly the result of economic issues, [15] though Serbia had had territorial pretensions towards Bosnia and ...
More than 8,000 men and boys under UN military protection were murdered in the vicinity of Srebrenica in 1995 by the Army of Republika Srpska. [2] The Srebrenica massacre has been denied by many Serbs, including Milorad Dodik, the Serb member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
It also shows that the levy took an entire year to be completed. Of the groups sent from Bosnia, unusually, 410 children were Muslims, and only 82 were Christians. This was due to the so-called ‘special permission’ granted in response to the request by Mehmed II to Bosnia, which was the only area Muslim boys were taken from. These children ...