Genocide is a horrible crime committed by people. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum defines the term genocide as “Genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group…”. They this when they intentionally kill, physically or mentally harm, sterilize, and force labor on the members of the group. In other words a genocide is the intention of destroying a mass group of a specific type of people by killing or dehumanizing the people in that group. There have been over 22 genocides in the world. Hopefully, genocides will come to an end. One of those many genocides is the Bosnian genocide. The Bosnian genocide took place in Bosnia in 1992 and ended …show more content…
Shortly after, Bosnia then declared independence. The Serbs then decided to kill the helpless civilians from Bosnia and Croatia for an ethical cleaning. The Serbs had an ethical cleaning because they were fighting with the Bosnians over the territory that was originally part of the Serbian territory. The Serbs then lost the land when Bosnia claimed their independence. This one of the reasons that started this genocide. Moreover, one of the other reasons is that Bosnia is a Muslim country. The Serbs despised Muslims. They even started a propaganda and claimed that Bosnian Muslims planned on killing all of the Serbian people. The Serbs, however, started this genocide to cleanse the world from the Muslims. The Serbs were from Serbia. Most of those Serbia were Orthodox Christians had strong, negative feelings toward the Muslims. Those feelings were influenced by propaganda. Accordingly, all of this propaganda started with one person. Slobodan Milosevic rose to power in Serbrinca in 1987 after President Josip Broz Tito died in 1980. He changed the constitution to the Serbs favor and had 90% of the army Serbians. Slobodan also did everything he could to control social media. Some the stages in this genocide is classification. Classification was used when the propaganda started. Another stage is discrimination because its used when …show more content…
It is important to learn about this because it shows that you can’t be afraid to speak up and don’t worry about what others think. If someone did say something the genocide would have stopped sooner and not as many people would’ve died. An estimate of 15 thousand men tried to escape and over 3 thousand of those men were killed in Srebrenica. Up to 8,000 men and teenage boys had been killed in four day massacre in Srebrenica. Most women were tortured and raped. If the women had a baby from being raped, the babies were called ‘Serbian babies’. The female and male prisoners were seperated and there were only a couple of camps. The prisoners in the camps were beaten,starved from water and food, tortured, and were finally killed. “Reconciliation cannot be possible without recognition of the crimes committed. Nothing can bring back their loved ones or erase their trauma…” says that nothing can take things back once they are committed or said. Once something as serious as a genocide happens, nothing and no one will be the same