War in Bosnia:

Source: Sarajevo, Portrait of Siege
  In March 1992, the Bosnian government declared independence from Yugoslavia, upsetting Bosnian Serbs, leading to the Bosnian War. Quickly after the declaration, Bosnian Serb rebels and the JNA took military action against Bosnia and Herzegovina in hopes of gaining land for the
“Greater Serbia”. 		 

Sarajevo

  " Bosnia is a complicated country: three religions, three nations and those "others". Nationalism is strong in all three nations; in two of them there are a lot of racism, chauvinism, separatism; and now we are supposed to make a state out of that."
Alija Izetbegovic		  

" The wrong of Bosnia isn't war and death. That is obvious. It's the lack of humanity in the information."

- Bill Carter

  
SarajevoBaby

                                                                                

 

 

 

Source: A witness to the genocide

 

 

 

 

 

                             

                                                                                                                                   Source: Sarajevo, Portrait of Siege

“A year of Serbian "ethnic cleansing" against Muslims in Bosnia has brought to light murder, rape and expulsion on a scale not seen in Europe since the Nazi era.”



- Newsweek, Stranger 1993 

 

 

 

 

Radovan Karadzic: “Serbs and Muslim are like cats and dogs. They cannot live together in peace. It’s impossible.”

-  The War in Former Yugoslavia (New Perspectives)

 

Content:


   War in Slovenia

   War in Croatia

   War in Bosnia

   Srebrenica

Timeline

Source: selenasol.com (Kristina Lerma)

April 1992

- Nationalist Serb snipers fire

on peaceful demonstrators in Sarajevo, marking the beginning of the war. Bosnian Serb soldiers are formally discharged from the Yugoslav army, but allowed to keep all of their weapons.

 

May 1992

- The West recognizes Bosnia-Herzegovina as an independent state. A mortar shell fired from a Serb position in the hills of Sarajevo kills 16 people waiting in line for bread. UN imposes sanctions on Serb-led Yugoslavia.

 

Summer 1992

- Reports of "ethnic cleansing,"

a policy of slaughtering Muslim

 inhabitants of towns or driving

 them away, in order to create an

 ethnically pure region. Reports of

concentration camps, mass rapes.

 

Winter 1992-93

- UN declares several Bosnian cities

 "safe havens" to no one's relief.

Pres. Clinton orders humanitarian

aid and food to be air-lifted to those places.

 

1992-1993

- Many cease fires are broken.

Vance-Owen peace treaty is first

accepted by Milosevic and Karadzic,

 then rejected by the Bosnian Serb Parliament

 

February 15 - 22, 1995

- Under the pressures from European allies, U.S. agrees to loosed economic sanctions  against Yugoslavia, in return for Pres. Milosevic's recognition of territorial integrity of Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina.Milosevic refuses.