Josip Tito creates a communist Yugoslavia.
Various Yugoslavian states divided into Republics.1
The Bosniaks are abundant in Bosnia & Herzegovina.
Nationalism in Yugoslavia is on the rise in the 1980’s.2
Between 1991 and 1992 Slovenia, Croatia, Macedonia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro all gain independence.
The Serbs want to regain Power in Yugoslavia.
Bosnia at this time was 43% Muslim, 31% Serbian and 17% Croatian.3
April 6, 1992, Serbs place Bosnian capital, Sarajevo under siege and occupy 70% of the country.4
The West do not interfere in the Balkans.
April 1993 – UN declares Srebrenica, Zeca and Gorazde among 6, “Safe areas”.5
Srebrenica was attacked in the summer of 1995, UN peacekeepers failed to help.6
Serbian forces separated the Bosniak7 civilians.
The women were bussed off to Serb held territory; most of them were raped and sexually assaulted.
The men were killed instantly or gathered and sent to concentration camps …show more content…
Bosnia was recognized as an independent state in 1992.17 The Serbs targeted the Bosniaks, whose past was negatively intertwined with theirs. When Yugoslavia began to break apart the Bosnian Serbs targeted the Bosniaks, in order to remove them from lands occupied by Bosnian Serbs or adjacent to Serbia. On the April of the following year, Serbia entered Bosnian territory and removed all Bosniaks18, Serbia and ethnic Bosnian Serbs attacked Bosniaks with Yugoslavian military equipment and surrounded Sarajevo, the capital.19 A diary entry of a Serbian says ‘we have to continue this work, what do we do with them? We have to get rid of them’20 throughout 1993, Serbs in Bosnia freely committed genocide in Bosnia, because they knew that the U.N. and would not take military action. Karadzic, president of Bosnian Serb republic said “Serbs and Muslims are like Cats and Dogs; they can’t live together in