Bosnian Genocide

Category: Genocide`

As the Bosnian war flared up, crimes against humanity (genocide) appeared in Bosnia mostly near Srebrenica in 1995. The Serbians who lived in Bosnia as well as those who didn't, and some Croat successionist authorities began to murder Muslim Bosnians for political, racial, and religious reasons. Serbs would seize towns, perform mass rapes, torture, and send thousands to concentration camps, the biggest being Omarska. In the Bosnian war about 100,000 died but in the genocide 8,000 men and boys were murdered. After Bosnia sued Serbia for genocide, trials declared the event in Srebrenica a genocide. The trial heard by the UN tribunal found 2 Bosnian Serb officers guilty of genocide but the nation of Serbia was cleared of being a genocidal nation since the tribunal could not charge the nation as a whole for committing these crimes. The court said that the crimes committed could amount to genocide but they had no jurisdiction over those issues.
(Myeisha, Dara)