Re: Genocides In Human History
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Bosnian Genocide
The fall of the Soviet Union had far-ranging sociopolitical consequences, none more devastating than in former Yugoslavia. Beginning in 1990, the country began splintering into republics, leading to intense ethnic tensions and population displacement.
The worst of the crimes occurred in the newly-formed Bosnia, with General Ratko Mladić of the Army of Republika Srpska leading the execution of thousands of Bosnian Muslims and Serbs in an attempt to “ethnically cleanse” the area. A measure of peace in the area was finally established in 1995, but only in the wake of more than twenty thousand casualties—most of them the result of executions, fires, rapes, and even public beheadings.