Bosnian Genocide

Bosnian Genocide
Part of the Bosnian War
A memorial to the victims of Srebrenica and other towns in eastern Bosnia
Location	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Date	11 July 1995 – 13 July 1995 (1995-07-13)
Target	Bosniak civilians and prisoners of war
Attack type	Mass murder, ethnic cleansing, deportation, concentration camps etc.
Deaths	Genocide: 8,373 (Srebrenica)
Victims	8,373 killed
Perpetrators	Army of the Republika Srpska (VRS), Scorpions paramilitary group

External video

Everyday objects, tragic histories Ziyah Gafić, TED Talks, March 2014, 4:32

Genocide:

The term Bosnian genocide refers to either genocide at Srebrenica and Žepa committed by Bosnian Serb forces in 1995 or the wider ethnic cleansing campaign throughout areas controlled by the Army of the Republika Srpska that took place during the 1992–1995 Bosnian War.

The events in Srebrenica in 1995 included the killing of more than 8,000 Bosniak ("Bosnian Muslim") men and boys, as well as the mass expulsion of another 25,000–30,000 Bosniak civilians, in and around the town of Srebrenica in Bosnia and Herzegovina, committed by units of the Army of the Republika Srpska (VRS) under the command of General Ratko Mladić.

The ethnic cleansing campaign that took place throughout areas controlled by the Bosnian Serbs targeted Muslim Bosniaks and Bosnian Croats. The ethnic cleansing campaign included unlawful confinement, murder, rape, sexual assault, torture, beating, robbery, and inhumane treatment of civilians; the targeting of political leaders, intellectuals, and professionals; the unlawful deportation and transfer of civilians; the unlawful shelling of civilians; the unlawful appropriation and plunder of real and personal property; the destruction of homes and businesses; and the destruction of places of worship.

In the 1990s, several authorities asserted that ethnic cleansing as carried out by elements of the Bosnian Serb army was genocide. These included a resolution by the United Nations General Assembly and three convictions for genocide in German courts (the convictions were based upon a wider interpretation of genocide than that used by international courts). In 2005, the United States Congress passed a resolution declaring that "the Serbian policies of aggression and ethnic cleansing meet the terms defining genocide".