Trojan War

Imagine yourself in a situation where there is no hope. Thinking if you will ever survive and live peacefully in a place where a massacre occurred after the Holocaust. A massacre where thousands of people died because of rape, sexual violence, and force displacement. A massacre that could have been avoided if the Serbian leader didn’t take advantage of the nationalist’s feelings. A massacre where its people wanted to be independent and break apart with its country due to religious reasons. During the war, thousands of people were killed and most were Muslims and more than three million people became refugees. Crimes committed during this war were unseen since the Holocaust. It was an atrocity that will hang over the nation for decades because …show more content…
An atrocity that caused deaths. An atrocity that caused savage violence. This atrocity was the largest massacre in Europe after the Holocaust. From the website endgenocide.org, there are “various of ethnic groups and republics that sought for independence” during Slobodan Milosevic lead. The Serbian leader took advantage of the nationalist’s feelings to gain more power and control over the country, and especially the people. The war that has caused a lot of damaged not only to the people but to the whole country as well. Apart from seeking independence, Bosnian Serbs also wanted to be part of the dominant Serbian state that had been long envisioned by the Serbian separatists. One of the main causes of the Bosnian War was that “the area between Croatia-Slavonia to the north, and Dalmatia to the south, and Serbia/Montenegro to the east/southeast was taken over by the Romans” (Gall and Gleason paragraph 6) that took them hundreds of years to be able to completely gain control of the country. “Bosnia and Herzegovina was particularly affected by the abolition of many traditional institutions” (Lampe, paragraph 1), meaning that religions and ethnicity had a very large impact on the Bosnian War. In the other hand, “manipulation of the nationalist’s feelings by politicians” and “using Yugoslav People’s Army to send secret arms deliveries to the Bosnian Serbs” (Lampe, paragraph 3) were one of the major events that led …show more content…
The war that brought the worst atrocity in Europe. The war that caused depression, fear, and nightmares to all the victims. The Siege of Sarajevo was finally declared over on February 29, 1996. Until this day on, people in Bosnia (Southeast Europe) still remembers the tragic and the darkest moment of the Bosnian War. They have a memorial service in a community in Bosnia. Not only women were harassed by Serb militias, but also the men.“ The single most horrific event of a war that killed 100,000 was Srebrenica, now known as the worst act of genocide on European soil since the Holocaust. It also triggered an exodus from Bosnia” (O’Brien, paragraph 1). This proves that the Bosnian War had caused so much damaged, physically and mentally to the victims of the war. “A panel of Bosnian and international judges ordered Bosnia's Serb Republic today to pay more than $2 million in compensation for the massacre of 7,500 Muslims at Srebrenica in 1995” (Simpson, paragraph 1). Bosnian Serbs were ordered to pay two million dollars for the massacre of thousands of Muslims during the war in 1992. It will be spent on building a memorial at the graveyard where families and victims plan to bury their relatives. In this time period, people are starting to write books and stories about the war during 1992, “The authors all rightly eschew the "ancient ethnic antagonism" frame that dominated debate on the genocide at the time, presenting a much more