Genocide in Bosnia

Situate yourself into the shoes of many Bosnian Muslims. As your country just disassociated itself into six multiple parts, you, a Bosnian Muslim, are being attacked by your own countrymen with no other reason but their religious beliefs and yours contradicting each others. This is what occurred in the Bosnian Genocide. Genocide is a term that is used to explain the intentional eradication of a certain religion, or group. “The term ‘genocide’ did not exist before 1944. It is a very specific term, referring to violent crimes committed against groups with the intent to destroy the existence of the group.”(United States Holocaust Memorial Museum) This is why one might feel Genocide is important because it is a subject that is so powerful that they make a word for it and so many people were and are affected by it.

At one point in time, there was a nation called Yugoslavia. Yugoslavia was diverted into 6 republics. Then in the 1990’s all six republics disembodied itself. Then in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina there were three major ethnic groups, Serbians, Muslims, and Croats. So, the Bosnian Serbians considered the idea of “ethnic cleansing.” This means they were intrinsically killing every Muslim so there are only Croats and Serbians. Eighty percent of the people extirpated were Bosnian Muslims. This is a complicated issue because the Muslims couldn’t fight back the Bosnian Serbians. If no one helped the Muslims they would have been exterminate in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Ching 8).

One might envisage what happened in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992 and 1995 as genocide. The reasons for that is because the Bosnian Serbians wanted to kill all of the Bosnian Muslims (Ching 8), NATO, Internat...

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...le believe that genocide just like this one will happen again. This time to stop it, we cannot just compose another bombing campaign but we will have to actually go into the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina and stop the Bosnian Serbians with armies (Could Genocide Happen Again).

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