Bosnia

BosniaBy: McCalle, Trevin, Gunner

About Bosnia

• Bosnia is located next to Italy • The neighboring countries are Montenegro and

Serbia• They are Nationalist• Population was 3, 839, 737 people lived there

Who was involved in the Genocide?

• Serbs (Orthodox Christians), Muslims • The Serbs were killing the Muslims • The Muslims were heavily out gunned and the

Serbs gained ground

How were the Muslims killed?• Over 200,000 people were killed, mostly Muslims • 20,000 – 50,000 Muslim women were raped• The Serbs would round up any able bodied men

ages 16-60 and would shoot them in the middle of the villages

• They would then take the women, children, and elderly to camps of mass extermination

• 1992 the Serbs eventually killed 3,500 children in the streets

Steps of Extermination• 1. Concentration : surround the area and warn

Serbs to leave because they are about to kill everyone.

• 2. Decapitation : Execute political leaders and any who could possibly take their place.

• 3. Separation : Divide women, children and elderly, away from the able bodied men 16-60 years of age.

• 4. Evacuation : Transport women, children, and elderly away

• 5 . Liquidation : Execute fighting age men and dispose of bodies

What is Genocide?

• Definition of Genocide : murder of entire ethnic group: the systematic killing of all the people from a national, ethnic, or religious group, or an attempt to do this.

• This was definitely a Genocide because of the mass extermination of the Muslims

Who Reacted?• The United States then launched diplomatic

efforts and unifying Muslims and the Croats against the Serbs

• However, this did not work• Bosnia Muslims received arms from the Islamic

world • Muslims then started taking their land back a little

bit at a time• This started the end of the Genocide

Sources• www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/genocide/bosn

ia.htm• www.history.com/topics/bosnian-genocide• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnian_Genocide• www.ppu.org.uk/genocide/g_bosnia.htm