Bosnians

Over 100,000 people died in the Bosnian War, as a result of the disintegration of Yugoslavia, and it’s leader, Josip Tito, was not even alive. A dictator is someone who has taken control over a country and transformed it into a state of totalitarianism, usually by means of force, although Josip Tito not only had a strong military but a wide base of support that allowed him to arise. His policies and ideas were more liberal and he leaned towards a more democratic society, however there were…

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 second group is perceived as a threat. The justification and the buildup…

tool to “purify” the country by getting rid of the minority to establish ethnic homogeneity (“Ethnic Cleansing”). The term ethnic cleansing was first introduced during the conflict between the Serbians and the other ethnicities of Yugoslavia. The Bosnian genocide is a product of the extreme nationalism expressed by the Serbians and Solbodan Milosevic’s prejudice towards the muslims of Yugoslavia. This eventually led to the mass murder of 7,000 Muslim men in Srebrenica and is considered one of…

the most remembered and documented holocaust of all time. Unfortunately not all survivors are impacted in the same way after genocides as those that survived the holocaust. Bosnian genocide survivors…

Croatia invaded Bosnia in hopes to take over, and split all Bosnian territory. This occurred after the European committee declared Bosnia an independent state. Religious tensions were also a contributing factor in the war being started. This was the worst act of genocide since the Holocaust. In April of 1992, The European community recognized Bosnia as it’s own country. This upset the Serbs because they opposed the creation of a Bosnian state within their territory. Serbs started bombing cities…

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”…

culminating in the disintegration of the nation. Joe Sacco’s graphic novel Safe Area Gorazde, captures this shift, focusing on the Bosnia, the most multiethnic republic within Yugoslavia at the time. Sacco’s portrayal of the actors involved in the Bosnian conflict demonstrates the significance of actors’ decisions in the outcome of a conflict. The Yugoslavian conflict demonstrates the interplay between various types of actors, how effective their decisions are in inspiring mass…

adviser to Alija Izetbegović, the first Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Bosnian War, filed the case. A document issued by the International Court of Justice stated that, “25,000 Bosnian Muslims, most of them women, children and elderly people who were living in the area, were uprooted and, in an atmosphere of terror, loaded onto overcrowded buses by the Bosnian Serb forces and transported across the confrontation…

One example of ethnocide presented in the text occurred in the Balkans. The Serbians were demolishing the Bosnian Muslim’s cultural symbols, such as a library and their mosques. This is ethnocide because the Serbians are destroying the Bosnian Muslim’s places of worship and knowledge in an attempt to wipe out their beliefs. Moreover, another example of ethnocide is in Canada, when the Parti Québécois (PQ) came to power in 1976 and required the language of French to be taught in schools and be…

walk outside in a sports bra and shorts. Contrary to what my image may suggest, I do pray, fast, and attend Mosque in my hijab. I come from a very religious household. Being Bosnian, there is an even greater emphasis on being proud to practice Islam due to the attempt to ethnically cleanse Bosnia of all Muslims during the Bosnian war in 1995. My grandmother on my dad’s side is very religious. In her area, a woman is basically there to serve to the man and should stay at home to cook and clean.…