Slobodan Milosevic: The Bosnian Genocide

Slobodan Milosevic was born August 20 1941 in Pozarevac, Serbia (75 miles south of Belgrade), and was the son of Svetozar Milosevic [Father] and Stanislava Milosevic [mother]. His family can be traced back from montenegrin stock that traces its roots from the 1389 battle of the kosovo polje.. Slobodan’s relative was Milos Markov, a Chetnik commander in the 18th century who inspired a song about a hero killed by traitors and grave is said to be at tended present day. The other relative that can be traced is his paternal Grandfather who was an officer in the montenegrin army. His father Svetozar gained his college education from Orthodox Seminary in the ancient montenegrin capital of cetinje and served before World War 2 at the Theological Academy of Serbian Orthodox Church in Belgrade. The mother Stanislava believed in Communism, and both …show more content…
This was the Bosnian Herzegovina genocide. During the Bosnian genocide, approximately 7-8,000 muslims were killed. The reason why this genocide and civil war occurred was because of the past tensions between Serbia and Bosnia. Types of tensions that occurred was territoriality and ethnic tensions. Before the tensions between Bosnia and Serbia, they were united as Yugoslavia in the 1980’s and 90’s. They dealt with ethnic conflicts, communist policies, and and economic instability. Because of this, Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro, Macedonia, and Bosnia declared independence from Yugoslavia (Serbia). However, these nations contained four different ethnic groups. The four main groups were Bosnian Muslims, Serbs, Croatians, and Yugoslavs. But when Bosnia was an independent state, Serbia declared war on Serbia as the newly independent states fought for land and resource control. Once the Civil War occurred, neighbor turned on neighbor. This war lasted from 1992 to 1995 and caused an event that affected many Muslims and Croats. This was the Bosnian