Pros And Cons Of Bosnian Genocide

I chose to do my Research about this while studying The Rwanda Genocide in 1994. I discovered that Rwanda wasn’t the only genocide that happened in the past and I really wanted to learn something about the attack in Srebrenica in 1995, where around 8,000 people were killed.

Many examples in history show multiple times where people have banded together to fight for the common good, but they might always notice how bad it actually in. This is what happened in the Bosnian genocide with the world. Nobody actually reacted until the news was spread worldwide that Serbs killed 8,000 males in Srebrenica(“Genocide and” 34). This is when the rest of the world, especially developed countries, saw the need to help these innocent people in Bosnia.The United Nations tried to help the Bosniaks and Croats who were in severe need of a rescue but only sent 400 soldiers. The city of Srebrenica had so much violence in it that it was too spread out for the UN soldiers to make an impact. This resulted in these soldiers getting criticized around the world for their lack of contribution(36). This was not the case for the genocide of the Jews. The Jews were at the height of media during the second World War. Hitler and his Nazi party made headlines week after week with the Holocaust. Many of the countries in the Allied Powers were shocked to see that something so disastrous could actually happen.Mass killings were constantly made at every camp. There is an estimated 250,000 Jewish people who died from these mass killings(“The Holocaust”

Ultimately, however, we are left with few examples of successful intervention in genocide studies, as even the Sinjar intervention failed to lead to sustained international cooperation. In both cases, however, independent or small coalitional action seems to be much easier to produce than international action. While this itself is not surprising, it does once again force us to confront the question whether the International community can enforce human rights in cases of gender based violence and

In Bosnia the people who were doing the killing was not one person, it was the whole nation of Serbs. Meanwhile in Germany the people committing murder were all looking up to one person. They followed Hitler's ideas and not their own. Hitler was able to manipulate the minds of the community and make them believe that what he was doing was good and was only for the good of the nation. In Bosnia the people knew that they what they were doing was murder and bad and that they were killing off the people just to gain power but that didn’t stop them, their goal was to be the leading ethnic race. In Bosnia it wasn’t until the early 1990's that the Croats and Muslims decided to fight together against the Serbs. All the years of war before that took place with all three groups at odds with each other, and the Serbs trying to kill them all off with

The Bosnian, Srebrenica, and Herzegovina land was involved in an ethical war where ethnic cleansing was seen as a way to solidify the breaks in that region (“Bosnian Genocide”). The trigger of this ethnic war was the break-up of Yugoslavia from one country to three (Bosnia, Srebrenica, and Herzegovina) in 1990 (“Bosnian Genocide”). This rupture of Yugoslavia resulted in the massive dispute between Muslims, Serbs, and Croatians (Bennett). Not long after the war began, the Serbs began executing the Bosnian Muslims through ethnic cleansing, in order to fill the fissure that was created in 1990. The mass execution lasted three years and nine months, and did not end until the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) intervened in 1995 (Bennett); by that time, an unforgettable 70,000 Bosnian citizens were executed by the Serbs (Perl 71). If NATO had intervened sooner, perhaps thousands of lives could have been saved and this haunting genocide may have had less of an impact on the world.

The total number of deaths was around 400,000 people. But if a narrow definition of genocide was used then the number decreases by quite a lot but either way they are still people just born different compared to the Bosnian Serbs. With the narrow definition used a said maximum of 104,732 people ("Srebrenica Genocide Blog." 1) were killed out of those 104,732 people 12,000 children were slaughtered. In addition to those who lost their lives, countless more were traumatized in a program of torture, mass rape, forced labor and imprisonment in concentration camps ("Bosnia and Herzegovina." CJA.). Before the war, Bosanski Samac was home to 17,000 Bosnian Muslims and Croats. By May 1995, less than 300 of these residents remained ("Bosnia and Herzegovina." CJA 1). Just the loss of over 98% of that town is a more than obvious reason for America to step in and help the Bosnian fight back against the Bosnian

Genocide is one of the most tragic events that can happen around the world. Identifying the stages is the most crucial part of stopping these horrible acts. The Bosnian Genocide and the Holocaust could have been prevented or stopped if the 8 stages were properly identified .

Throughout the years there has unfortunately been several instances of genocide and one of the most horrifying and tragic genocides was with the Nazi Holocaust that took place from 1938 until 1945. Another one of the horrifying genocides in history was the Bosnia-Herzegovina genocide that took place from 1992 until 1995. A genocide is essentially a systematic murder. Genocide is basically an attempted murder on individuals based on social or political reasons. Bosnia-Herzegovina was responsible for 200,000 deaths and the Nazi Holocaust was responsible for 6,000,000 deaths! Just because the amount of deaths between the two are drastically different does not mean that they did not both do a tremendous amount of damage and take a great deal of

Concentration camps took the lives of approximately 10,000 people. Many women were being taken to the camp to be raped and tortured for weeks and sometimes months until they became pregnant. An estimated total of 20,000 rapes happened between 1992-1995. Reports of rape and mass killings had slowly been communicated to the world. The pictures and videos of what was going on definitely got the world's attention. The U.S. government was shown all the proof of what had been going on yet they still chose to do nothing. Soon after the UN established six safe areas. These safe areas were to be protected with international peacekeepers. These peacekeepers had very few weapons and could only fire when it involved self defense. Sadly they were highly ineffective. One of the UN safe areas, Srebrenica, soon began to fall. With that, the Croatians and Bosniaks joined powers to move Serbian forces away from the Krajina region. With the Croatians and Bosniaks powers combined, they were able to push out Serb forces, along with 200,000 civilians, out of Krajina and into other Serb dominated areas. It created one of the biggest refugee populations in Europe (“Bosnia and Herzegovina”). The defeat of Bosnian Serbs forces soon made people realize they need to make changes in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as soon as

Between 1992 and 1995, the Bosnian genocide took place as a result of the Bosnian and Serbian war. Yugoslavia was divided into six federated republics in 1946, them being: Bosnia/ Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia. Bosnia attempted to pass a referendum for independence but was rejected by representatives of Serb who, in return, established their own republic, Republika Srpska. Bosnian Serb and Yugoslav People's Army, declared war on Bosnia in an attempt to take the land for themselves since the referendum for independence was denied. An “ethnic cleansing” occurred of the Muslims in Bosnia, who made up 50% of the population as a result of the

The Bosnian Genocide want not very good life to live. The country of Yugoslavia was formed in the year of 1929. The population of Bosnia is about 3.8 million people. Muslims represented the largest single population group by 1931. They were described as fundamentalists by the Serbs. The social federal republic of Yugoslavia was led by the Dictator Gossip Brazito.Three of the major groups in Yugoslavia were the Serbs, Croats, and the Slovenes. The Croatians were under the French and Austro Hungarian control and were predominantly Catholic. They made up about 12% of the population. The slovenians were under the control of Austro- Hungarian and were also Catholic. The Serbs were under Ottoman control and were of the Eastern Orthodox religion.

They occur and we neglect to notice the unearned inequity. Even though genocide is difficult encounter as actuality it is. The Bosnian genocide was a heartbreaking event that caused misery and loss of lives to 100,000 with 80,000 being of the Bosnian culture (Bosnia-Herzegovina). March 1, 1992-December 14, 1995 35 dreadful months for the Bosnians. If you think of all the terrifying things done to them they would sometimes rather be dead than alive. Could imagine being in so much agony you would wish you were dead. The perpetrators, the Serbians were making an effort to exterminate the Bosnians. They were stopped by the Bosnians who fought for their lives. This would be recognized as genocide because it shares several characteristics with

A genocide is a intended killing upon a large group of people, especially upon a certain ethnic group. The genocide in Bosnia, also known as The Bosnian War started in 1992 after Bosnian government declared independence from Yugoslavia. Bosnian Serbs did not like the idea of a free nation with majority of the citizens being Muslim. Serbs killed approximately 100,000 croats and muslims. The Genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina is similar to the Holocaust because both involved the murders of certain cultures. This was the largest massacre in Europe since the Holocaust (Bosnia-Herzegovina).

In his “Safe Area Gorazde” Joe Sacco describes his experience visiting a Muslim enclave during the Bosnian War of 1991-1995. Tragically, this work is based on testimonies of residents of Gorazde, allegedly a UN-protected area where Bosnian Muslims are able to take refuge to avoid the ethnic cleansing perpetrated by the Serbian army. Gorazde is anything but protected which Sacco demonstrates throughout the book by ridiculing the UN and the US who are able to and responsible for protecting the residents of such enclaves, but instead turn a blind eye to what was going on. “…the U.N. extended safe area status to other Bosnian enclaves, including Gorazde. But the U.N. had yet to work out what the concept

To better understand the atrocities of these wars, one must have knowledge of the definitions of certain terms and war crimes. The ideas of “ethnic cleansing” and “genocide” are often thrown