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An ICRC book published in 2010 cites the total number killed in all of the Balkan wars in the 1990s as "about 140,000 people". [340] In 2012 Amnesty International reported that the fate of an estimated 10,500 people, most of whom were Bosnian Muslims, remained unknown at that time. [341] [342] Bodies of victims are still being unearthed two ...
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 ...
The Preliminary List of People Missing or Killed in Srebrenica compiled by the Bosnian Federal Commission of Missing Persons contains 8,373 names. [127] While the overwhelming majority of them were men, some 500 were under 18, [ 128 ] and victims include several dozen women and girls.
Initial estimates placed the number of refugees and internally displaced people during the Bosnian War at 2.7 million, [11] though later publications by the UN cite 2.2 million people who fled or were forced from their homes. [114] It was the largest exodus in Europe since World War II. [72]
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]
During late 1991 and early 1992, as the Bosnian Serbs continued to declare autonomy from the central government of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croats and Bosnian Muslims in the Sana valley began organising town self-defence groups or village guards against possible attacks from the Bosnian Serbs or their supporters in the JNA.
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 ...
[31] On 7 April the United States and the EEC recognized Bosnia and Herzegovina as an independent state, [11] [32] and other members of the international community also recognized the country in early April. [33] That day, Bosnian Serb leaders declared independence and renamed their self-proclaimed entity the Republika Srpska. [24]