Slobodan Milosevic
The president of Serbia from 1989 to 1997. (History.com Staff, 2009) "After the death of longtime Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito in 1980, growing nationalism among different Yugoslav republics threatened to split their union apart. This process intensified after the mid- 1980s with the rise of the Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic, who helped foment discontent between Serbians in Bosnia and Croatia and their Croatian, Bosniak and Albanian neighbors. In 1991, Slovenia, Croatia and Macedonia declared their independence; during the war in Croatia that followed, the Serb-dominated Yugoslav army supported Serbian separatists there in their brutal clashes with Croatian forces."(History.com Staff, 2009) Bosnian Serb Forces The Bosnian Serb Forces and the Yugoslavian Serb armies attacked Bosniak cities, killing Bosniak muslims and raping Bosniak women in camps. (History.com Staff, 2009) "In early May 1992, two days after the United States and 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.com Staff, 2009) The army attacked Bosniak towns, including Zvornik, Foca, and Visegrad. The Bosniak civilians were forced out of cities due to "ethnic cleansing". (History.com Staff, 2009) Ratko Mladic General of the Serbian forces in Bosnia.(Mladic Arrest, 2011) "Gen. Ratko Mladic, Europe's most wanted war crimes fugitive, has been arrested in Serbia, the country's president said Thursday." Mladic had said during the Sarajevo seige, "Burn their brains!" (Mladic Arrest, 2011) Ratko had personal hatred for the Bosnian Muslims. "Obsessed with his nation's history, Mladic saw Bosnia's war, which killed more than 100,000 people and displaced another 1.8 million, as a chance for revenge against 500 years of Turkish-Ottoman occupation of Serbia. He views Bosnian Muslims as Turks and called them that as an insult." (Mladic Arrest, 2011) Radislav Krstic Serbian Major General. Krstic was the planner of the attack on Srebrenica (Krstic, Radislav). "The court ruled that the Serbian forces killed up to 8,000 Bosnian Muslims of fighting age, after expelling all the women, children and old people from Srebrenica in Europe's worst civilian massacre since the second world war." (Serbian general convicted, 2001). After being arrested, he went before a panel of three UN judges. (Serbian general convicted, 2001). ""You were there, General Krstic," said Judge Rodrigues. "You were guilty of the murder of thousands of Bosnians Muslims," he said." In 2001, Krstic was found guilty of genocide, (Serbian general convicted, 2001). Radovan Karadzic Serbian Leader. Karadzic orchestrated the artillery fire on the city of Sarajevo.(Radovan Karadzic, 2016) "The atrocities during the war have been described as the worst crimes committed in Europe since World War Two. At a UN tribunal in The Hague, judges found him guilty of 10 out of 11 counts of genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and other atrocities in the Bosnian war of the 1990s, including leading the slaughter of thousands of Bosnian Muslims (Bosniaks) and Croats." (Radovan Karadzic, 2016) Their Goal: Their goal was to ethnically cleanse the Muslim and Croatian populations so that they may annex Bosnia. (Radovan Karadzic, 2016) "One count of genocide related to the massacre of more than 7,500 Muslim men and boys in the Srebrenica enclave in July 1995, which the UN said was part of a campaign to "terrorise and demoralise the Bosnian Muslim and Bosnian Croat population." (Radovan Karadzic, 2016) |