In 1992, the Bosnian Serb army with the support of the Yugoslav Army Serbia began an effort to ethnically cleanse all non-Serbian residents from a great deal of Bosnia. As a component of its ethnic cleansing operation, Bosnian Serb army used strategies such as systematic maltreatment through the use of things such as torture, murder, rape, harassment, unfairness, threats, displacement of people, confiscation and destruction of property, as well as the destruction of cultural objects such as…
Introduction Sexual crimes are of an enormous complexity, not only to investigate but also to explain and to understand. The key is to be able to differentiate between the sexual crimes. The motivation of offenders can vary greatly, and it can depend on many variables: including opportunity, victim selection, and mental illness. The first important distinction to make is between sex offenders and sexual predators. Sex offenders only commit one crime and most often they victimize only one person…
better. She moved to the University of Florida about a month ago. Also, the international students moved a week before the rest of the students. I then proceeded to ask her how many languages she spoke and she said that she spoke three which included Bosnian, Serbian, and Croatian. My next question was what were some of the biggest differences that she saw between the university and in her home country. She said that the people here are nicer such as when they go shopping. She said that they…
Every person in the world can say they have experienced a tragedy. Whether it big or small there are events in our lives that will never leave our everyday thought. There are people who we may never be able to find the strength to forgive for bringing pain upon us. Occasions in which challenge our minds to their breaking points. “The Bosnia List: A Memoir of War, Exile, and Return” by Kenan Trebincevic is an autobiography about his personal experience of surviving the ruthless war and ethnic…
was held which produced a three-man presidency representing the main Bosnian groups. Srebrenica was re-inhabited but Serbia left huge internal displacement of population from which the people have not yet recovered. The tragedy of this place will forever haunt the history of the U.N, a massacre of people who believed that Un will help them and they will be safe. Evaluation of the sources http://www.history.com/topics/bosnian-genocide - This website briefly explained the story of what…
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…
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 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,…
1991, the country of Yugoslavia began to break up between the different ethnicities. When the republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina declared independence in 1992from Yugoslavia, war immediately sprang into action. The Serbians targeted Bosniaks – a Bosnian Muslim ethnic group – and Croatian civilians in a campaign of ethnic cleansing, similar to that of Nazi Gemany.…
Throughout the course of time, there were many genocides that devastated the population of a specific country. The city of Srebrenica was a long and unique history. In Srebrenica, Bosnia, thousands of people were killed in a war. The genocide and ethnic cleansing of Srebrenica was considered to be the worst genocide since World War II. The war began in 1992 and lasted for four years, until 1996. Muslims were forced to migrate out of Srebrenica, and those that failed to do so were executed. The…