The siege of Sarajevo, the longest in the history of modern warfare, began on April 5th 1992 and ended on February 29th 1996. During the four years, the politically motivated Army of Republika Srpska, under the command of Radovan Karadžić and Ratko Mladić, dropped an average of 377 shells every single day causing damage to over 64% of the buildings and over 100,000 apartments. The Bosnian Serb army also used the hills surrounding Sarajevo to its advantage by placing snipers there who targeted innocent civilians including children, elderly and women. The siege ended in 1996 after the intervention of the United Nations and The NATO, which forced the Bosnian Serb Army to declare ceasefire. However, the once beautifully diverse city of Sarajevo…
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This quote is from a Serbian soldier speaking about the plans against the Bosnian Muslim captives he guarded (Yancey). To begin, “genocide” is seen differently by everyone involved and has specific steps. In Bosnia, conflicting views created tension amongst its citizens The eight stages of genocide pertain to the conflict in Bosnia. Finally, genocide is a horrific event that needs intervention on a global scale. As a result of the Serbians’ beliefs that the Muslims were unworthy of residing in their country, atrocious tactics were used in order…
World War I is renowned and historically relevant due to the many stipulations of its beginning. While the initiation of its ‘successor’, World War II can be pinpointed to a single group, the instigation of World War I is surrounded with varying opinions and perspectives. Certain individuals may argue that militarism was the culprit, or that alliances provided the spark needed to ablaze warfare on a global scale. Despite this, many historians bring forth the rise of nationalism as the leading instigator of war. Nationalistic pride can be seen as a primary motivator in the development of secondary causes of war such as the formation of alliances, imperialism and militarism.…
It involved Armenian men, women, and children. Turks disliked Armenians because of their religious beliefs and the facts that they were jealous of the Armenians. The Armenians had education and wealth, they would even send the children off to finish their education in America or Paris, while the Turkish had little businesses, worked in farms, and had little money. The genocide then began in April 24, 1915 because the Armenians believed in Christianity. They also accepted Christianity as their state religion.…
The Bosnian genocide actually started in the 70s. It was little known because it was during the time of the cold war. The Cold War officially started in 1947, right after the end of World War 2. Nobody knew about the genos=cide because Russia had nuclear missiles in Cuba and everybody was thinking about that. As the cold war was in the middle of the 45-year war, the genocide started to fade away.…
All of the genocides such as this one all began to happen from the same thing, power and control. The Holocaust, Cambodian genocide, Armenian genocide, Bosnian genocide, and most if not all of the other genocides that happened came to be due to wanting control. Any future genocides will be started from the same…
The ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia came as a shock to many around the world. Thousands of people were slaughtered not only by the Serbian government, but also by their neighbors and former friends. Although a tragedy the genocide was not much of a surprise looking at the history of the region. Tensions had been running high between the Serbs, Croats, Bosnians and Ethnic Albanians. The reason for the Genocide was similar to many before it; kill the unwanted minority in order to create a pure race and space for that race to exist.…
Two current genocides that are present, is Rwanda and Burundi. The Rwandan genocide started in 1994. This genocide was the slaughtering of the Tutsi by the Hutu. The Burundi genocide was started in 1972. This genocide was between the Tutsi and the educated Hutus.…
The word Genocide means killing or destroying members of an ethic group because of their race, nationality or religion. It is one of the worst crimes that people ever came across when thousands and millions of people were murdered. From 1992-1995 that was happening in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Bosnia is a country in south-eastern Europe that emerged after the break-up of Yugoslavia in 1980. The conflict between the three main ethnic groups in Bosnia, the Serbs, Croats, and Muslims, resulted in genocide committed by the Serbs against the Muslims in this…
“It was not war. It was most certainly massacre and genocide, something the world must remember” (Beilin). Beginning in 1915, the Turkish government created a plan to massacre Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire (History.com Staff). Armenians were taken from homes, arrested, and executed. Those who survived were forced to go on death marches through the Mesopotamian desert without desired resources.…
Genocide is a word used to describe the destruction of a nation or ethnic group. The word being derived from the Greek word genos meaning “race” and the Latin word cide meaning “killing”. The Armenian genocide, although covered up, was particularly brutal. The Ottoman Turks had a lot to do with the genocide taking place, the murders were brutal and the Ottoman Turks and Turkish people today have had a lot of control over the aftermath. At the time, the Ottoman Turks had just entered World War I, taking the side of Germany and the Austro- Hungarian Empire.…
The Rwandan genocide was a horrific mass murder that took place in Rwanda in the year of 1994. Rwanda was once run by the Tutsi population, until the Hutus gained…
In chapter two, “War Makes You an Animal”, Junger describes how communities react to different situations. Whether it be due to a war or natural disaster, individuals are often brought together in times of need and despondency. Junger addresses the connection between war and happiness, finding that individuals are surprisingly happier during times of war. Regardless of race, class, religion, or gender, The “community of sufferers” that rises when faced with complications and adversity, pushes individuals to utilize their animal-like ancestral instincts (Junger 53). Allowing people to band together regardless of race, class, religion, or gender.…
The height of the killings took place in July 1995 when 8,000 Bosniaks were killed in what became known as the Srebrenica genocide, the largest massacre in Europe after the Holocaust. The war was able to begin because in1987, a Serbian politician named Slobodan Milosevic rose to power and Serb nationalism began. Under the rule of Milosevic, the Yugoslav army, took over numerous cities including: Vukovar, Sarajevo, Bihac, and much more. In doing this, the army committed plenty of atrocities. Specifically, the army aimed to ethnically cleanse the territory of the Bosniaks.…