1. Srebrencia

3. Srebrencia

5. Ethnic Cleansing
Process in which more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region.

6. Balkinization
Process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities.

7. People Involved
Slobodan Milosevic - From 1991 to 1999, he presided over mayhem and mass murder in south-eastern Europe. In a long list of villains. he was the central figure. To the civilian victims of Srebrenica and Vukovar, Sarajevo and Dubrovnik, Pristina and Banja Luka

8. People Involved
General Ratko Mladic - Bosnian Serb army chief throughout the Bosnian war - and the man many hold responsible for the worst atrocities in that bloody conflict.

9. People Involved
Radovan Karadzic - was the ultranationalist leader of the Bosnian Serbs in the civil war in the former Yugoslavia. He is widely regarded by diplomats as the chief architect of ethnic cleansing during the war in Bosnia.

10. Muslim Resistance
Serbs were able to take Bratunac, but they were not able to take Srebrenica.
This enraged Serbian General Ratko Mladic who held a grudge against the men of Srebrenica.
Naser Oric – Rambo like figure Muslim who inflicted a number of smaller atrocities on Serb villages around Srebrenica.
Naser Oric – Rambo like figure Muslim who inflicted a number of smaller atrocities on Serb villages around Srebrenica.

11. NATO
A political and military alliance. “We want to be sure that we can walk around freely in a safe and secure environment. Security in all areas of everyday life is a key to our well-being, but it cannot be taken for granted.

12. United Nations Peace Keepers
Resolution passed in December 1995 to provide an International Police Task Force
Peacekeeper sarajevo

13. Bosnia Herzegovina Took place in 1995
Worst massacre in Europe since WWII.
Who was the conflict between?
Serbs and Muslims

14. One of the largest massacres of the early part of the war took place at a gymnasium in the village of Bratunac in April 1992, when an estimated 350 Bosnian Muslim men were tortured to death and massacred by Serb paramilitaries and special police. Bratunac lay just outside Srebrenica, and would again serve as a killing ground when the city fell to Bosnian Serb forces in July 1995.

15. June 1995 Bosnian Serb forces closed in Srebrenica.
Muslims women and children fled to the UN base in Potocari. Including 1,700 men
Battle age men fled to the mountains.

16. June 10, at Potocari
The Dutch troops allowed the Serbs access to the camps.
The Serbs separated the men from the women in the camp. Not one of the 242 men is know to have survived.

17. June 11
The Serbs take the men away from the camp. Not one of the 242 men is know to have survived.