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A report produced by the ICTY after the war put the death toll of the siege at 4,548 ARBiH soldiers and 4,954 Sarajevan civilians killed. [ 100 ] [ 101 ] The Research and Documentation Center in Sarajevo (RDC) found that the siege left a total of 13,952 people dead: 9,429 Bosniaks, 3,573 Serbs, 810 Croats and 140 others.
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.
Death toll The Srebrenica Genocide Memorial in Potočari If a narrow definition of genocide is used, as favoured by the international courts, then during the Srebrenica massacre , 8000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were murdered and the remainder of the population (between 25 000 and 30 000 Bosniak women, children and elderly people) was forced ...
The highest death toll was in Sarajevo: with around 14,000 killed during the siege, [161] the city lost almost as many people as the entire war in Kosovo. In relative and absolute numbers, Bosniaks suffered the heaviest losses: 64,036 of their people were killed in Bosnia, which represents a death toll of over 3% of their entire ethnic group. [158]
The Kazani pit, located on the outskirts of Sarajevo. Used as an execution site and mass grave by Topalović and his forces. The Kazani pit killings were the mass murder of predominantly ethnic Serbs living inside besieged Sarajevo by the forces of Mušan Topalović, commander of the 10th Mountain Brigade in the Army of the Republic of Bosnia ...
To step inside Sarajevo’s Apollo Cinema 30 years ago, you first had to find the door. The streets of the Bosnian capital were pitch black. Power cuts brought on by a crippling siege, which ...
Ratko Mladić (Serbian Cyrillic: Ратко Младић, pronounced [râtko mlǎːdit͡ɕ]; born 12 March 1942) is a Bosnian Serb former military officer and convicted war criminal who led the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) during the Yugoslav Wars. [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] In 2017, he was found guilty of committing war crimes, crimes against humanity ...
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 ] It was mainly perpetrated by units of the Bosnian Serb Army of Republika Srpska under Ratko Mladić ...