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1 day ago · Bosnian Serb wartime political leader Radovan Karadzic and his military commander, Ratko Mladic, were both convicted of genocide in Srebrenica by a special U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands. In all, the tribunal and courts in the Balkans have sentenced close to 50 Bosnian Serb wartime officials to lengthy prison terms.
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Share. Nedžiba Salihović, a woman from Srebrenica, screams at a United Nations soldier in a refugee camp in Tuzla, Bosnia, July 17, 1995. — Ron Haviv / VII / Redux. In 1991, Yugoslavia’s republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Bosnia) had a population of 4 million, composed of three main ethnic groups: Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim, 44 percent ...
The Srebrenica massacre, also known as the Srebrenica genocide, was the July 1995 genocidal killing of more than 8,000 Bosniak Muslim men and boys in and around the town of Srebrenica, during the Bosnian War.
The methods used during the Bosnian ethnic cleansing campaigns include "killing of civilians, rape, torture, destruction of civilian, public, and cultural property, looting and pillaging, and the forcible relocation of civilian populations". [13] Most of the perpetrators of these campaigns were Serb forces and most of the victims were Bosniaks.
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia —established before the massacre to scrutinize ongoing military conduct—concluded that the killings at Srebrenica, compounded by the mass expulsion of Bosniak civilians, amounted to genocide.
Jun 8, 2021 · 8 June 2021. Srebrenica massacre. Ratko Mladic was in court to hear the verdict on Tuesday. Former Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic has lost his appeal against a 2017 conviction for genocide,...
Conflict & Genocide in Former Yugoslavia, 1991-1995 is a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) project created by Yale University’s Genocide Studies Program (GSP) to serve as an interactive resource for researchers and survivors, as well as others interested in the Balkan conflicts of 1991-1995.
