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UN peacekeepers collecting corpses after the Ahmići massacre Kosovo, Croatian and Bosnian War death toll compared to other modern European wars. Some estimates put the number of killed in the Yugoslav Wars at 140,000. [6] The Humanitarian Law Center estimates that in the conflicts in former Yugoslav republics at least 130,000 people lost their ...
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.
This list of wars by death toll includes all deaths that are either directly or indirectly caused by war.These numbers include the deaths of military personnel which are the direct results of a battle or other military wartime actions, as well as wartime/war-related deaths of civilians which are often results of war-induced epidemics, famines, genocide, etc. Due to incomplete records, the ...
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 1964 census resulted in a death toll of 597,323 for Yugoslavia. The results were declared a secret and were first revealed to the public in 1989. [4] The census committee claimed that the census covered around 56-59%, or 60-65% of deaths. [5] The Yugoslav censuses did not cover the deaths of Axis troops and the victims of Yugoslav Partisans ...
Mass-executions of Slovene hostages by the Gestapo throughout World War II. [21] Dotrščina executions. 1941–1945. Dotrščina, Zagreb. 7,000. Ustaše. Mass-executions of Serbs, Jews, Roma and Croat Anti-fascist hostages (including 2,000 members of the KPJ and the SKOJ) during the Ustaše occupation of Zagreb. [22]
World War II in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia began on 6 April 1941, when the country was invaded and swiftly conquered by Axis forces and partitioned among Germany, Italy, Hungary, Bulgaria and their client regimes. Shortly after Germany attacked the USSR on 22 June 1941, [25] the communist -led republican Yugoslav Partisans, on orders from Moscow ...
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, though the ...