1. Genocide in Bosnia- Hersegovina BY EMIR MONONUTU AND JACOB GARCIA

2. What is Genocide?  Genocide is when people are massacred in large groups.  Usually an ethnic group is victim to this.

3. Where is Bosnia located?  Southeast Europe  Capital city – Sarajevo  Neighbors: Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia

4. What happened in Bosnia?  Between 1992 and 1995, an estimated 100,000 people were killed  80 percent were Bosnian Muslims.  Caused by a group called the Bosnian Serb forces

5. Why did it happen?  The Yugoslav republics nationalism was growing  This made them want to split the union and massacre the Bosnians.

6. Slobodan Milošević 1941-2006 Former president of Serbia Radovan Karadžić 1945-Present Supreme commander of the Bosnian Serb Army Ratko Mladic 1942-present Bosnian Serb Mlitary Leader People who were involved

7. Victims  Deaths: over 100,000 (due to execution, torture, exhaustion)  Targets: Bosnian Muslims  Serbs: Orthodox Christians  Croats- Catholics  Bosnian (AKA Bosniaks): Muslims

8. The Genocide  Started in July 11, 1995  In a span of one week, Serbs killed over 7,000 Bosniaks from Srebrenica

9. The Genocide  The largest massacre in Europe since the Holocaust

10. Living conditions  The people were loaded onto buses and sent to territories.  The men were immediately killed if they were “battle age”  Women, children, and the elderly were the ones who got onto the buses.

11. How did the genocide end?  NATO initiated war strikes against the Bosnian Serbs to get them to stop.  The U.S. made negotiations to end the conflict.

12. The Aftermath  Over 200,000 deaths  Over 20,000 missing  2,000,000 refugees  Thousands of bodies buried underground

13. Pledge Awareness

14. Work Cited  www.britannica.com /event/ Srebrenica-massacre www.britannica.com /event/ Srebrenica-massacre  https://www.hmh.org/la_ Genocide _ Bosnia.shtml https://www.hmh.org/la_ Genocide _ Bosnia.shtml  www.huffingtonpost.com /news/ srebrenica-massacre www.huffingtonpost.com /news/ srebrenica-massacre