Prisoners in a Serbian concentration camp ("World Without Genocide," 2015).
1991: June - Yugoslavia began to collapse. 1992: Feb 29 through March 1 - Muslims and Croats in Bosnia vote for independence in referendum. April 6 - War breaks out in Serbia. 1993: January - War breaks out between Muslims and Croats after the Bosnian peace efforts fail. April - Zepa, Srebrenica, and Gorazde are declared “safe areas”. 1994: March - Muslim and Croat war ended after U.S. brokered agreement. 1995: March - Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic orders that Srebrenica and Zepa be entirely cut off and aid convoys be stopped from reaching the towns. July 9 - Karadzic issues a new order to conquer Srebrenica. July 11 - Bosnian Serbs troops, under the command of General Ratko Mladic, capture the eastern enclave and U.N. "safe area" of Srebrenica, killing about 8,000 Muslim males in the following week. The U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague indicts Karadzic and Mladic for genocide for the siege of Sarajevo. August - NATO starts air strikes against Bosnian Serb troops. November 21 - Following NATO air strikes against Bosnian Serbs, Bosnian Muslim President Alija Izetbegovic, Croatian President Franjo Tudjman and Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic agree to a U.S.-brokered peace deal in Dayton, Ohio. December - Bosnia-Herzegovina war ended with a peace agreement negotiated in Dayton, Ohio and signed in Paris. - Refugees were guaranteed the right to return home, but many of them did not. 1996: - Very first person with the name of Drazen Erdemovic was sent to ICTY (International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia) and convicted of genocide. 2001: - Former Serbian military leader Slobodan Milosevic was transferred to the ICTY . - Serbian General Radislav Krstic was convicted of genocide and was sentenced to 46 years in prison. 2006: - Slobodan Milosevic died during his trial. 2012: - Ratko Mladic went on trial for ordering the Srebrenica genocide.
This is a video talking about the history of the Bosnian War ("Bosnian War," 2012).
Causes
"As tensions built inside and outside the country, the Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and his Serbian Democratic Party withdrew from government and set up their own “Serbian National Assembly.” On March 3, 1992, after a referendum vote (which Karadzic’s party blocked in many Serb-populated areas), President Izetbegovic proclaimed Bosnia’s independence," ("History," 2009). "Far from seeking independence for Bosnia, Bosnian Serbs wanted to be part of a dominant Serbian state in the Balkans–the “Greater Serbia” that Serbian separatists had long envisioned," ("History," 2009). "In early May 1992, two days after the United States and the European Community (precursor to the European Union) recognized Bosnia’s independence, Bosnian Serb forces with the backing of Milosevic and the Serb-dominated Yugoslav army launched their offensive with a bombardment of Bosnia’s capital, Sarajevo," (History," 2009). The primary cause of this genocide was after the death of Josip Broz Tito, there was growing nationalism which threatened to split the unions in the Yugoslav republics. A new leader in Serbia rose with the name of Slobodan Milosevic, and he helped disconnect between the Serbians in Bosnia. For more information on the Bosnian genocide, visit http://www.history.com/topics/bosnian-genocide
President Clinton talking about the Bosnian war ("USA: Washington," 2015).
Causes of the Bosnian genocide and the events that took place ("Bosnian Genocide," 2012).