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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]
Vilina Vlas was a rape camp active during the Bosnian War.It served as one of the main detention facilities where Bosniak civilian prisoners were beaten, tortured and murdered and women were raped by prison guards during the Višegrad massacres in the Bosnian War of the 1990s.
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 ...
Bosnia is still reeling from a bloody war in the 1990s and violence against women is widespread, but the ex-wife's livestreamed slaying shocked people in the Balkan country.
Some sources claim that the perpetrators may have been members of the White Eagles and Arkan's Tigers paramilitaries. [25] Brčko massacres: May–July 1992 Brčko: VRS: Bosniaks, Croats: 500 Mass-killings and persecution of Bosniaks and Bosnian Croats by Bosnian Serb forces in the Brčko area. Most victims were detained and killed in the Luka ...
Excavation of a mass grave in eastern Bosnia. Civilian men from Foča were executed whilst women were detained and repeatedly raped by members of the Bosnian Serb armed forces. The war-torn Sarajevo neighborhood of Grbavica in 1996, a site of rape camps during the Bosnian War and subject of the award-winning film Grbavica. [14]
The other members of the group were Oliver Krsmanović, Dragutin Dragicević, and Đorđe Sević. [1] 16 Bosniak passengers from Sjeverin - 15 men and one woman, [1] all Yugoslavian and Serbian citizens - were taken off the bus and forced onto a truck. They were taken to Višegrad, in eastern Bosnia, which was under the control of the Bosnian ...
On 12 July 1992, a total of 69 Bosnian Serb soldiers and civilians were killed in the villages of Zalazje and Sase in the municipality of Srebrenica, and Biljača and Zagoni in the municipality of Bratunac, after an attack by the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ARBiH). It occurred during the Bosnian War.