1. Balkans Ethnic Cleansing

2. 2GENOCIDE  Genocide: An attempt to eliminate, in whole or in large part, a particular group of people (such as national, ethnic, racial, religious, social, or political groups).  Mass Murder: The intentional killing of a large number of people who are either unwilling or unable to defend themselves.  Ethnic Cleansing: The attempt to remove a particular group of people from a particular geographic area through the use of terror.

3. Yugoslavia  Eight Major ethnic groups: Serbs, Croats, Muslims, Slovenes, Macedonians, Albanians, Hungarians and Montenegrins.  Ethnic and religious differences for centuries  After WWII: Yugoslavia became a federation of six republics  Ruled with an Iron hand by Josef Tito  Communist and nonaligned

4. Changing of Leadership  1980 Tito dies  Slobodan Milosevic takes over  Serb Leader

5. Ethnic Cleansing  1991 Slovenia and Croatia declare their independence  Serbian led Yugoslav army invades both republics  Bosnia and Herzegovina joined Slovenia and Croatia in declaring independence  During the War Serbians used ethnic cleansing against Bosnian Muslims

6. The places where the atrocities were committed

7. Violated sections of the Declaration of Human Rights, International law  Article 1: All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.  Article 2: Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.  Article 3: Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.  Article 7: All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination.

8. Ethnic Cleansing  Forced migration of Muslims  Violence, rape, killing  The Srebrenica Massacre, also known as the Srebrenica Genocide refers to the July 1995 killing of more than 8,000 [6] Bosnian men and boys, as well as the ethnic cleansing of 25,000–30,000 refugees in the area of Srebrenica in Bosnia and Herzegovina, [6]ethnic cleansingSrebrenica Herzegovina [6]ethnic cleansingSrebrenica Herzegovina

9. Bosnian Genocide 1992-95 - Bosnian Muslims outgunned - forced to flee homes - rape used as weapon of terror - mass shootings - makeshift concentration camps

10. Kosovo  1998 Kosovo violence again erupts  Southern Serbia  Ethnic Albanians were killed, raped and forced to leave their homes by the Serbs  NATO intervened on the side of the Albanians  Peace 1999

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12. Bosnian Genocide 1992-95 Radovan Karadzic named President of “Bosnian Serb Republic” - carries out genocide with immunity - no world response 1992-94 - Feb., 1994 – Serbian shell explodes in marketplace in Sarajevo killing 68 & wounding 200 civilians  outrages world - UN declares cities as safe havens – ignored by Serbians - Bill Clinton demands cessation of hostilities thru NATO

13. Bosnian Genocide 1992-95 - Human shields - worst mass slaughter in Europe since Holocaust & continuing mass rape - Srebrenica - General Ratko Mladic - NATO begins bombing of Serb positions in Aug., 1995 in response to Srebenica - organized Bosnian Muslim-Croat army puts Serbs on the run

14. Slobodan Milosevic  Extradited to stand trial at the Hague in the Netherlands  War crimes  Died March 11, 2006 without a verdict being handed down.

15. Bosnian Genocide 1992-95 - Nov., 1995 Serbs begin negotiating peace treaty - Dayton Accords reached in Dec., 1995 ending conflict - International force (NATO) oversees compliance - Bosnian independence recognized - war criminals charged - 200,000 Muslims murdered in Bosnia, 20,000 missing, and 1,000,000 displaced - “the greatest failure of the West since the 1930s” - Milosevic died while on trial at the Hague in 2006 - Mladic is still at large - Karadzic is currently on trial at the Hague

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