The Bosnian War: the Fight for Independence

The Bosnian War: the Fight for Independence

In 1992 Bosnia and Herzegovina had one the biggest genocide to come after WWII, in turn killing over 800,000 civilians. The war consisted of two factions, the Croats and Serbs, both wanting territory in Bosnia. Soon Radovan Karadžić, former Bosnian Serb president, created a special army to support the Serbs, soon the Serbs started the new policy for “ethnic cleansing” many areas of non-Serb. For it was later that it was to be decided that is was complete and utter genocide towards the innocent.

In 1990 Yugoslavia started to weaken from a multitude of political upheavals and other conflicts. Later resulting in the total separation of Yugoslavia, which was the main cause for why the war started. Bosnia and Herzegovina soon declared their independence from Yugoslavia, mostly inhabited by Croatians, Serbs and bosniak’s. Independence soon became well known of the two countries. Bosnian Serbs were deployed in the republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina to achieve Serbian land, thus war was unleashed between the two opposing forces. Many attacks toward small or large resulted in catastrophic disaster.

Ravno was one of the first to be destroyed by the Yugoslav people’s Army(JNA). Not long after ravno, Sijekovac was attacked by the Serbs, leaving 47 dead. Two of the death includes Suada Dilberović and Olga Sučić, who were gunned down by an unknown Serb assassin during a peace march. The death of these two men are Considered the first of the casualties in the Bosnian war. The Carrington- Cutileiro plan was created to stop any progression in this war. This plan was for both Bosnia and Herzegovina to ethnic power sharing between the 3 different factions. In 1992 all 3 faction agreed to sign the plan...

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The Bosnian war was thought to have taken the lives of 25,000-329,000 people, both citizens and military personnel. 12,000 of the people were children, 50000 women were raped, while 2.2 million people were forced to leave their homes. 30,000 people were reported missing.

On December 6, 2004, Boris Tadic, president of Serbia, apologized to Bosnia and Herzegovina “I'm deeply sorry that the Republic of Croatia has contributed to the suffering of people and divisions which still burden us today.” March 31, 2010, Serbian Parliament adopted the “declaration of condemning in strongest terms of the crimes committed in July 1995 against bosnaik population of Srebrenica”