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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 Srebrenica genocide was the core issue of the landmark Bosnian genocide case at the International Court of Justice through which Bosnia and Herzegovina accused Serbia and Montenegro of genocide. The ICJ presented its judgement in February 2007, which concurred with ICTY's recognition of the Srebrenica massacre as genocide. [ 25 ]
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 ...
SREBRENICA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Thousands of people from Bosnia and abroad gathered in Srebrenica on Thursday for the annual ritual of commemorating the 1995 genocide which Serb officials ...
A re-trial in Bosnia and Herzegovina resulted in acquittal in 2018 on charges of killings of three Serb prisoners in the towns of Zalazje, Lolići and Kunjerac. [3] However, the killings of Serbs in Zalazje, Sase, Biljača and Zagoni on 12 July 1992 were not part of any of the charges brought against Orić.
Serbs: 49 Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ARBiH) attacked Kravica on Orthodox Christmas, killing as many as 49 Bosnian Serb soldiers and civilians. [76] 80 others were injured and property was destroyed on a large scale. Duša massacre: 15 January 1993 Duša near Gornji Vakuf: HVO: Bosniaks: 10
Genocide of Bosniaks in World War II 1941-45 Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sandžak: Chetniks c. 100,000 [1] Artovac massacre 28 June 1941 Avtovac: Chetniks 47 [2] Drvar massacre 27 July 1941 Drvar: Chetniks, Yugoslav Partisans: 200 [3] Višegrad massacres (1941) July–August 1941 Višegrad: Serb villagers 500 [4] Berkovići massacre 26-28 August ...
SARAJEVO (Reuters) -Bosnian Serb lawmakers on Thursday adopted a report denying that the killing of 8,000 Muslims in Srebrenica during the Bosnian war constituted genocide, and thousands of Serbs ...