Bosnian Genocide Perpetrators When April 1992 December 1995
Bosnian Genocide
Perpetrators �When: April 1992 - December 1995 �Who: Bosnian Serbs, Slobodan Milosevic Radovan Karadzic (1945 -present) Supreme Commander of the Bosnian Serb Army Slobodan Milosevic (1941 - 2006) President of Serbia Ratko Mladic (1942 -present) Bosnian Serb military leader
Bosnian Civil War Victims �Casualties: Over 100, 000 (between 130, 000 and 150, 000) �Causes: Execution, torture, exhaustion �Targets: Primarily Bosnian Muslims (65% Muslims, 22% Serbs, 8% Croats, and 5% Others) �Serbs – Orthodox Christians �Croats – Catholics �Bosniaks – Muslims �Refugees & IDPs: 2 million
Srebrenica Genocide Victims �Casualties: ~8, 000 �Causes: Military assault, execution �Targets: Bosnian Muslims, specifically men and boys. �Refugees: ~50, 000
Srebrenica Refugees � 20, 000 women and children fled Srebrenica the morning of the siege to the nearby city of Potocari. � 15, 000 men fled after the siege for the nearest Muslim enclave in Tulza, 63 miles away from Srebrenica. � 23, 000 women and children were deported by the Serbs to “Muslim territory” the day after the start of the siege.
Summary of Genocide - Timeline May 25, 1993: The UN Security Council establishes the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). 199 1 1992: Bosnia’s independence from Yugoslavia recognized by the US and European Union July 11 -19, 1995: Srebrenica genocide: Bosnian Serbs killed over 8, 000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys. Summer 1995: Bosnian Serb army prepared to “capture and cleanse” the 3 towns in eastern Bosnia, declared as “safe havens” by the international community in 1993. December 1995: Peace agreement negotiated in Dayton, Ohio known as the Dayton Accords 1996 August 1995: NATO intervention: 3 week long bombing on Bosnian Serb positions
What’s Happened Since Srebrenica? � 1993 – ICTY established at The Hague. � December 1995 – The Dayton Accords brought peace to Bosnia and created two entities, the Republic of Srpska and Bosnian Federation � 2001 – The ICTY ruled that genocide had occurred in Srebrenica. � 2007 – The International Court of Justice determined that Serbia violated the Genocide Convention by not doing enough to prevent genocide in Srebrenica. � February 2015 – The United States moves to deport at least 150 Bosnians living in the US who were believed to have taken part in the conflict. � March 24, 2016 – Radovan Karadzic, nicknamed the “Butcher of Bosnia, ” was found guilty of genocide in Srebrenica and other crimes against humanity committed during the Bosnian War from 1992 to 1995. � March 20, 2019 – Karadzic’s sentence for genocide extended from 40 years to life imprisonment by appeal judges at the UN court in
Resources � Human Rights Watch: http: //www. hrw. org/europecentral-asia/bosnia-and- herzegovina � “War Crimes in Bosnia-Hercegovina (Volume II)” report: http: //www. hrw. org/reports/1993/04/01/war-crimes-bosnia-hercegovina-volume-ii � “Milosevic to Face Bosnian Genocide Charges” press release: http: //www. hrw. org/news/2001/12/10/milosevic-face-bosnian-genocide-charges � United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: http: //www. ushmmorg/confrontgenocide/cases/bosnia-herzegovina � International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY): www. icty. org � Justice Report: www. justice-report. com � CNN: https: //edition. cnn. com/2019/03/20/europe/karadzic-genocide-sentence- intl/index. html
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