The Bosnian Genocide
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Actualizado: 1 mar 2018
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Created byQuaylin McMurray
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The Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) is founded.Belgrade's Humanitarian Law Center is founded by Natasa Kandic.Kostunica becomes president of the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS).Goran Hadzic becomes premier of the Republic of Serbian Krajina (RSK).Bosnia declares independence.The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is created.Bosnian Serbs take over Prijedor, placing severe restrictions upon non-Serbian residents.The Bosnian war begins.Karadzic becomes president of Republika Srpska.Military actions by Serbian forces begin in Foca. Muslims and Croats are arrested.The Croatian Defense Council (HVO) is formed.Visegrad is occupied by the Yugoslavian Peoples' Army.Bridges spanning the Sava River are bombed in Brcko.The confinement of non-Serbian Bosnians begins in Omarska, Trnopolje, and Keraterm.The destruction of mosques, churches, and other culturally sacred sites begins.The shelling of Sarajevo begins.Bosnians and Croats who had not been evacuated from Brcko following the bombing are moved to holding centers in Luka.The YPA leaves Visegrad.Twenty-two are killed by a mortar shell while waiting in line for bread.Women and children in Visegrad are burned alive in the Bikavac and Pionirska street massacres.Thirty-eight are killed in Prhovo.Partizan Sports Hall is first used as a detention center for women, children, and the elderly.Approximately 70 Bosnian Muslims are killed in Brisevo.Atrocities committed by the Bosnian Serb Army and Serbian police force in Visegrad end, with approximately 2,000 dead.The National Library of Sarajevo is destroyed.September 14, 1992 – The Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina declares the Herzeg-Bosnia Croatian community illegal.Sixteen Bosnian Muslims are killed in Sjeverin.Prozor is attacked by Bosnian Croat forces. The homes of Bosnian Muslims are destroyed.The Drina Corps, consisting of 15,000, is formed.Ratko Mladic issues a directive ordering the Drina Corps to inflict the heaviest losses possible and force enemies and Muslims to leave Eastern Bosnia.The Vance-Owen Peace Plan is announced.Hakija Turajlic is assassinated.Over 100 Muslims are massacred in Ahmici.The UN declares safe areas, including that of the city of Srebrenica. Paramilitary troops are deployed for the protection of these areas.The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) is established.Inela Nogic becomes Miss Sarajevo 1993.Croatian forces attack the Medak Pocket.UN forces enter the Medak Pocket only to discover it has been completely destroyed.A massacre at Stupni Do leaves 31 civilians dead and the village destroyed.The Old Bridge at Mostar, completed in 1566, is destroyed by Bosnian Croat forces.Zlata Filipovic and her family are flown to Paris following the publication of her diary.Sixty-six are killed following the bombing of an open air market in Sarajevo.The Washington Agreement is signed.The first battalion of Dutch paramilitary troops, known as Dutchbat, arrive in Srebrenica.Serbs take 150 peacekeepers hostage in an attempt to halt NATO air strikes on Serbian locations.NATO delivers an ultimatum threatening air strikes if Serbian forces do not fall back, halt attacks, and open Gorazde to UN forces and aid.A temporary cease-fire is arranged by U.S. president Jimmy Carter.Croatian forces attack Western Slavonia. Some 18,000 Serbs flee.Seventy-one are killed after a Croatian Serb shell hits Tuzla.NATO forces organize airstrikes against military targets.The third Dutchbat unit arrives at the compound of Potocari near Srebrenica, with a force of 200.Srebrenica is taken by the Army of Rebuplika Srpska (VRS).Bosnian Muslims detained near Kravica are executed.Fifteen are killed along the Jadar river.Some 1,000 Bosnian Muslims held in Orahovac are executed.Approximately 1,000 male Bosnian Muslims are detained near Zvornik. They are later executed.Twelve hundred Bosnian Muslim men are killed retreating from Srebrenica.Some 500 Bosnian Muslim men detained in the Pilica Cultural Center are executed.Six are killed near Snagovo.The UN safe zone of Zepa is entered, and then captured. Women and children are allowed to evacuate in the days prior.Operation STORM is launched near Knin by the Croatian army. Some 150,000 Serbs flee.Bodies buried in mass graves in the areas of the Zvornik and Bratunac brigades are exhumed and reburied to conceal the extent of executions.Croatian forces capture Knin, crossing the UN cease-fire line.Operation DELIBERATE FORCE begins. This two-week NATO operation included the bombing of numerous Serbian military targets.The Dayton Peace Agreement is signed.Períodos
The Bosnian Genocide
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