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
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: Hundreds of thousands
Srebrenica Genocide
 Bosnian Serb forces seize Srebrenica on July 11, 1995
 In a period of one week, Bosnian Serb forces executed 7,000
to 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys.
Srebrenica Genocide
 The worst massacre that occurred in Europe since
the Holocaust
 Srebrenica victims still being exhumed from mass
graves across the region
Summary of Genocide - Timeline
1991: Republics of
Slovenia and Croatia
declared independence
from Yugoslavia
May 25, 1993: The UN
Security Council
establishes the ICTY
July 11-19, 1995:
Srebrenica genocide:
Bosnian Serb forced
killed over 8,000
Bosnian Muslim men
and boys.
December 1995: Peace
agreement negotiated in
Dayton, Ohio known as
the Dayton Accords
1996
1991
1992: Bosnia’s
independence from
Yugoslavia recognized by
the US and European
Union
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.
August 1995: NATO
intervention: 3 weeks
bombing on Bosnian
Serb positions
What’s Happened Since?
 December 1995 – Dayton Accords: Brought peace to Bosnia
and created to 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.
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