AIM: What was the Bosnian Genocide?

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1. Bosnian Genocide 1992-1995
2. About Bosnia
   
   • Bosnia is located in South East Europe
3. Before
   
   • In 1991, a new Croat was elected and the government was seen to be fascist by the Serbs it enacted discriminatory laws targeting Orthodox Serbs.
   • Leader of the Serbs was Slobodan Milosevic at the time
4. War starts in 1992
   
   • Serbs invade Bosnia to “protect the Serb minority
5. War starts in 1992
   
   • During the attack on the city of Vukovar, they bombarded the outgunned Croats for eighty six days and destroyed all the city’s structures.
   • After the Serbs took the city they began the first mass killings.
6. War starts in 1992
   
   • Serbs rounded up hundreds of men and shot them.
   • Serbs targeted Croats and Muslims
7. 
   
   • Picture of a Bosnian man captured by Serb forces about to be executed
   • Serbs began executions after they took Bosnian towns and villages
   • Men and women were separated, with many of the men sent to be executed, the women where raped repeatedly
8. Serbs attack civilians
   
   • During 1994 and 1995 Serbs massacre civilians at places that the U.N designated as “safe havens”
   • These pictures are from a video which shows Serbs rounding up Bosnian men and shooting them in the bush
9. Srebrenica massacre
   
   • July 1995, Srebrenica Bosnia
   • paramilitary unit from Serbia known as the "Scorpions" carry out the massacre
   • On July 10 th Bosnians living in Srebrenica knew that Serb attack was imminent, fearing that if they fell into Serb hands they would be killed fled in a large column of 10000-15000.
10. Srebrenica massacre
    
    • The column of fleeing civilians was mostly men. (Serbs massacred only the men in most cases)
    • There where a small number of women and children in this column and the Serbs allowed them to leave.
11. Srebrenica massacre
    
    • Only one third of the column of fleeing men managed to get out of Serb territory
    • The men that didn’t escape where rounded up and sent to execution fields were they where shot.
12. After
    
    • After the war ended, it was hard to find evidence of any genocide taking place because the Serbs where very careful when hiding the evidence (bodies).
    • The Serbs usually made everyone that was involved in this genocide kill atleast 1 person to deter them from becoming witnesses. An example of this would be the truck drivers that transported victims to area’s of execution where forced to shoot atleast 1 man
13. End of the war
    
    • On December 14, 1995, the leaders of Bosnia, Croatia, and Serbia signed the Dayton peace accords
    • NATO troops numbering 60,000 entered Bosnia to enforce the accords
    • 200,000 Bosnian civilians where murdered at the end of the genocide according to the Bosnian government