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Death toll The Srebrenica Genocide Memorial in Potočari If a narrow definition of genocide is used, as favoured by the international courts, then during the Srebrenica massacre , 8000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were murdered and the remainder of the population (between 25 000 and 30 000 Bosniak women, children and elderly people) was forced ...
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 ...
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.
A report produced by the ICTY after the war put the death toll of the siege at 4,548 ARBiH soldiers and 4,954 Sarajevan civilians killed. [100] [101] The Research and Documentation Center in Sarajevo (RDC) found that the siege left a total of 13,952 people dead: 9,429 Bosniaks, 3,573 Serbs, 810 Croats and 140 others.
The highest death toll was in Sarajevo: with around 14,000 killed during the siege, [160] the city lost almost as many people as the entire war in Kosovo. In relative and absolute numbers, Bosniaks suffered the heaviest losses: 64,036 of their people were killed in Bosnia, which represents a death toll of over 3% of their entire ethnic group. [157]
Other sources cite a death toll of 33 killed. [83] Uzdol massacre: 14 September 1993 Uzdol: ARBiH: Croats: 25 [84]-30 [85] ARBiH forces killed at least 25 Croat civilians. Bobaši massacre: 18 September 1993 Bobaši, near Vitez: ARBiH: Croats: 15 Bosnian mujahideen kills 15 Croats. [citation needed] Stupni Do massacre: 23 October 1993 Stupni Do ...
Sentenced to death in 1946. On 6 April 1941, Nazi Germany, Italy, and Hungary invaded Yugoslavia. [4] Yugoslavia capitulated on 17 April, [5] and the country was partitioned by the Axis powers. [6] In northern Bosnia, a group of officers and soldiers of the Royal Yugoslav Army, led by Colonel Draža Mihailović, refused to surrender and took to ...
On the Serbian Eastern Orthodox holy feast of Petrovdan on 12 July 1992, Bosniak forces, allegedly under the command of Naser Orić, attacked the villages of Zalužje and Sase in the municipality of Srebrenica and Biljača and Zagoni in the municipality of Bratunac, killing a total of 69 Bosnian Serb soldiers and civilians. [2][4][8] At least ...