Bosnian Genocide

d.), #1) The Bosnian Genocide had many causes that led up to it starting in 1992 when Bosnia and Herzegovina declared independence from Yugoslavia. The Bosnian Genocide occurred because of Serbian leader, Slobodan Milosevic, the province of Serbia did not want the nation of Yugoslavia to break apart, and there were also religious tensions between the nations. Serbian leader, Slobodan Milosevic was a long time Communist and believed in radical Serbian nationalism, or the belief of that race being superior over the others. Before Milosevic…

The world has seen many genocides, but most people have only heard of a few main mass killings. Most haven’t heard of the Bosnian Genocide, though. Right after Bosnia became independent, there was a war and then the genocide. Many citizens of Bosnia were killed or injured in many unique ways. This is a very negative topic to learn, but the world should be aware that this can happen anytime and anywhere. The Bosnia Genocide was a horrible mass killing. The genocide happened in South East,…

The Holocaust and Bosnian Genocides: a comparison Genocide: from the Greek word “Genos” meaning race, and English “-cide” denoting the act of killing. The systematic mass destruction of a race, of a culture, of a religion, of ideas and ideologies, of precious human life; and they have been going on for a long time. Though most people typically don’t ever hear about it until we talk about the Holocaust, it was not the first one, nor the last. Even after one of the most prolific mass killings of…

The Bosnian Genocide was the worst act of genocide since the Nazis regime’s destruction of 6 million European Jews during World War 2. The Bosnian Genocide was a complete act of terror to the Yugoslavian people. The Serbian majority seized power after the fall of the previous regime, the victims were treated poorly. The victims were the Bosniak and Croatian civilians, the people involved was the Serbs, and the victims were tortured and beaten to death. The Bosnian Genocide was an act of terror.…

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. There is little known about this because nobody knew it happened until after and witnesses were…

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…

I wrote out a rough draft which was too short so I had to add more details about the event. ESSAY ! 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…

Cassie Niemeier Bosnia List Paper Anyone who says that history is black and white clearly slept through class. There is no simplicity to history. Most events in history are like a Jenga tower. Events stack on top of each other creating a less stable structure until it collapses in on itself, or war breaks out. The Bosnian genocide seems very simple on the surface. In fact, genocide is a rare simple thing in history, a group of people want to eliminate another group of people because the…

When an individual tends to think of pyramids, their mind usually wanders off the the great pyramids of Giza, or just the Egyptians in general. What many are not aware of though, is that in there are pyramids of various shapes and sizes in many different parts are the world, with some of them being found in unexpected locations. In 2008, a set of three “pyramids” were found in Visoko, Bosnia. Bosnia is located in Eastern Europe near Croatia and Serbia, and the discovery of these pyramids was…

Sheri Fink’s 2003 nonfiction work War Hospital reports, in great detail, the atrocities of the Bosnian War at Srebrenica through the lens of the war medicine that was practiced there. Fink takes both a macro and micro approach to explaining what happened at Srebrenica in the early 1990s. She chronicles the actions, thoughts, and experiences of individual doctors, both Bosnian and international, who risked their lives to treat injured civilians in the most challenging of conditions. Alongside…