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The Bosnian genocide (Bosnian: Bosanski genocid / Босански геноцид) took place during the Bosnian War of 1992–1995 [8] and included both the Srebrenica massacre and the wider crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing campaign perpetrated throughout areas controlled by the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS). [9]
The Srebrenica massacre, [a] also known as the Srebrenica genocide, [b][8] was the July 1995 genocidal killing [9] of more than 8,000 [10] Bosniak Muslim men and boys in and around the town of Srebrenica during the Bosnian War. [11] It was mainly perpetrated by units of the Bosnian Serb Army of Republika Srpska under Ratko Mladić, though the ...
Genocide of Bosniaks in World War II 1941-45 Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sandžak: Chetniks c. 100,000 [1] Artovac massacre 28 June 1941 Avtovac: Chetniks 47 [2] Drvar massacre 27 July 1941 Drvar: Chetniks, Yugoslav Partisans: 200 [3] Višegrad massacres (1941) July–August 1941 Višegrad: Serb villagers 500 [4] Berkovići massacre 26-28 August ...
Ethnic cleansing occurred during the Bosnian War (1992–95) as large numbers of Bosnian Muslims (Bosniaks) and Bosnian Croats were forced to flee their homes or were expelled by the Army of Republika Srpska and Serb paramilitaries. [6][7][8][9] Bosniaks and Bosnian Serbs had also been forced to flee or were expelled by Bosnian Croat forces ...
The Bosnian War[a] (Serbo-Croatian: Rat u Bosni i Hercegovini / Рат у Босни и Херцеговини) was an international armed conflict that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992 and 1995. The war is commonly seen as having started on 6 April 1992, following several earlier violent incidents.
On July 11, 1995, Bosnian Serbs overran a U.N.-protected safe area in Srebrenica. They separated more than 8,000 Bosniak men and boys from their wives, mothers and sisters and slaughtered them ...
Omarska is a predominantly Serbian village in northwestern Bosnia, near the town of Prijedor. [8] The camp in the village existed from about 25 May to about 21 August 1992, when the Army of Republika Srpska and police unlawfully segregated, detained and confined some of more than 7,000 Bosniaks and Bosnian Croats captured in Prijedor.
The Croat–Bosniak War was a conflict between the internationally recognized Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the so-called Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia, supported by Croatia, that lasted from 18 October 1992 to 23 February 1994. [4] It is often referred to as a "war within a war" because it was part of the larger Bosnian War.