Topic > Essay on the Bosnian Genocide - 928

Brenda Katten, president of the Zionist Federation, stated that: "As Jews, we are quite horrified by what is happening: we lost a large part of our people in the 1930s because the doors they were closed before us. What is sad is that we do not learn from our history (3) This seems to be the recurring theme of genocides: they happen and they are an immense tragedy, but they continue to happen throughout time Bosnian genocide of 1992-1998, another group was exterminated by another group for specific reasons. In this case, an estimated 200,000 Bosnian civilians were killed (2) by the Serbs emerged at the end of World War II. (1) After Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia and Croatia became part of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia, when Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito died in 1980, the union between the different countries under Yugoslav power it seemed threatened with separation. When the Serbian leader, Slobodan Milosevic, caused dissatisfaction between the Serbs in Bosnia and Croatia and their Bosnian and Croatian neighbors, it led to a war. When Milosevic was elected president of the republic of Serbia in 1989, violent uprisings by several Serbian nationalist political parties occurred in neighboring Croatia. These events frightened other members of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia, which led to their uncertainty regarding the future of the newly founded republic. As fear overwhelmed many civilians, a large population of non-Bosnian Serbs began not only to boycott Milosevic's vote, but to urge others to take similar measures in March 1992. These actions lead to the second... ...The Tribunal Criminal Investigation for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has indicted more than 160 people who committed crimes in the former country of Yugoslavia. Milosevic was accused and was his lawyer, but due to his declining health, the trials were continually delayed until he was found head in his prison cell in 2006, 4 years after he was first accused of a count of genocide, one count of genocide. of complicity in genocide and 27 other counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity. (5) There were some convictions against people who took part in the crimes, but the leader of the movement never faced repercussions for his illegal acts. Furthermore, the political leader of the Bosnian Serbs, Karadzic, and the army general, Mladic, have been accused of association with war crimes, but have not yet been arrested for the same acts.. (4,5)