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Zvornik and the later genocide around Srebrenica.” Since the returnees were harassed, making the society multiethnic was very difficult. Also since the local security took part in the attacks and genocide, it was hard to unify the country because they supported the ethnic cleansing. The returnees not being able to return to their homes added to Bosnia being ethnically fractured after the war. As expressed by McMahon and Western, “In ethnically fractured postwar Bosnia, however, such decentralization

Death of Yugoslavia” frames the political events that took place towards the end of the Cold War that would ultimately result in the dissolvent of Yugoslavia. After the death of Josi Broz Tito, the once suppressed nationalism between the Serbs and Croats was reignited under the control of Slobodan Milosevic. The Serbs claimed that their people were poorly treated at that the Albanians yearned for an ethnically pure Yugoslavia. Unlike his predecessor, Milosevic catered to the Serbs, lending an ear

was the outcome of misleadership and late intervention by the world. The Bosnian conflict was a war that led to the death of over 100,000 soldiers and civilians(War Crime). The war consisted consisted of two sides: the Bosnian-Serbs and the Bosnian-Croats. The conflict was handled improperly. It even came close to home as one american soldier was stranded in Bosnia in the middle of the war witnessing all that the UN and the government of the Bosnian-Serbs would pronounce to be false.

destruction, which had, and still does, cause problems for and amongst the nations and people involved. Yugoslavia was a nation in the Balkan region of Europe formed, under a monarchy of King Peter I after the First World War, named the Kingdom Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. This nation holds historic significance due to it being the first union since the Ottoman and Austro Hungarian Empires conquering the region. Yugoslavia first gained international recognition on 13th July 1922 by the Conference of Ambassadors

major difference was the fact that Hitler started the mass murder within his own country and expanded outward through Imperialism, Bosnia however did not. When the Serbs got control of Yugoslavia they became more of a nation banded together than the Croats and the Slovenes were, so what started off as a war became blown up into a mass-murdering spree. 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

Two terrifying events in earth’s history are the German Holocaust and the Bosnian genocide. Both are similar in the ways they horrified and innocently killed their victims. They massacred based on which religion you believed in. We all know that the Jews were victims to the Nazis, but not many know that Muslims were the unlucky recipient of the Bosnian genocide. Also, the techniques used to innocently kill the persecuted group are parallel. How these genocides occurred is very alike; this includes

countries. Tensions in the Balkans increased after World War II. Bosnia-Herzegovina went from a prime example of cultural unity to the exact opposite due to the dissolution of Yugoslavia. Yugoslavia was created at the end of World War I, when Bosnian, Croat, and Slovenian territories joined that of the Serbian Empire. Yugoslavia was split up during World War II, but was once again unified at the end by Josip Broz Tito. Due to cultural differences, remembrance of WWII events, and the death of Josip Broz

(Malcom 6). In addition, Croats and Serbs contained an ethnic Iranian component, which other Slavs lacked (Bosnia 7). During World War II, this slight difference in ethnic composition may have lead to the Croatian Fascist movement, the Ustasha, which propagated racial propaganda similar to that of the Nazis and considered Croats superior to other Slavs. At the beginning of the 1990s, there may have been some lingering resentment caused by the Croat Ustasha movement existing in Yugoslavia;

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 . There are 8 stages of genocide and the first stage is Classification. Classification is putting people into groups based on race, ethnicity, and religion. These groups usually are separated into the superior people and the inferior

composed of are Serbs, Croats and Muslims. The country of Bosnia has a lengthy and intricate history, a direct result of national and ethnic conflicts between people of different ethnic groups and