Bosnia Essay

disassembled over what historians would argue was “The bloodiest war in Europe since World War II” (Multi-Ethnic Conflict: Yugoslavia.). Yugoslavia was a country composed of six republics- The socialist republic of Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, and Slovenia. The country was created after world war one in 1929 and was under the control of the Soviet Union up until 1991 when the Soviet Union broke apart. With the fall of the Soviet Union came the inevitable turmoil, violence

The Bosnian Genocide began in April of 1992 and ended in 1995. It was a war between the Bosnian Muslims, the Croats, which are Catholics, and the Serbs, which are Orthodox Christians. It occurred in Bosnia-Herzegovina where the population was about 3.8 million. The Bosniaks made up 44 percent of the population, the Serbs 31 percent, and the Croats 17 percent. The country is only about the size of West Virginia. The Bosniaks were treated unfairly and inhumanely during this span of three years. It

Kenan Trebničević was living in Bosnia during the time of the ethnic cleansing that happened. In his book, The Bosnia List, Kenan tells about his experience with the war that him and his family had to live through. Kenan had very skeptical views about how his homeland turned out to be after the war, but once he traveled back to Bosnia with his family his perspective was greatly changed. Kenan was about thirty years old when he decided he was going to make a list of all of the things that he wanted

Ferdinand was not the emperor of the Habsburg Empire at the time of his death, Serbian nationalist extremist group, the Black Hand, planned, and executed, their assassination in hopes that his death would start a war that would free what was then Bosnia from Austrian rule. While the decision to target Franz Ferdinand was relatively arbitrary, the Black Hand wanted to target some member of the Habsburg Dynasty that would trigger their Bosnian revolution. Ultimately with some planning, and a lot

NATO and US troops were sent to Bosnia to solidify the fragile peace in Bosnia. Conflicts in Bosnia are largely responsible for the unstable Europe and this can alter the Security of the US as well. In addition to all these factors US planned to intervention in to the Bosnia conflict and suppress the conflicts (Carpenter, 1996). American hopes for a continental solution on Bosnia Problem proved unrealistic. The European Community-soon to become the European

is Bosnia, which was subjected to a violent ethnic conflict following the breakup of Yugoslavia in 1991. There has been a lot of literature dealing with the democratization of the Bosnian military over the past twenty years, and taken in chronological order they reveal the gradual success

terrorist organization called the Narodna Odbrana, which worked towards the unification of all South Slavs in an independent, sovereign country called Yugoslavia. The Narodna Odbrana was created because South Slavs living in Serbia, as well as in Bosnia and other Slavic provinces, felt a strong nationalistic desire to unify all the members of their cultural group in a new country called Yugoslavia. The Black Hand’s commitment to Serbian nationalism led it to replace the Narodna Odbrana, while adopting

tension was caused by the threat Pan-Slavism posed on Austria-Hungary due to its high Slavic population and its recent annexation of Bosnia Herzegovina. Another tension-builder was that Russia, a Slavic nation and a super-power at the time, was fully supporting this movement, thereby indirectly challenging Austria-Hungary

The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines the word “genocide” as “the killing of people who belong to a particular racial, political, or cultural group” (Merriam). But aren’t genocides much more then that? Over the past hundred years, there have been several attempted genocides around the world. Two of the most well-known genocides are the Holocaust (the Nazi’s attempt to destroy the Jewish people) and the Bosnian genocide (the Serbians attempt to destroy the Bosnian population). This paper analyzes

was assassinated on June 28 of 1914 by a Serbian nationalist group that was called “Unity or Death”, more commonly known as the Black Hand, due to the symbol they used. Some Serbians were unhappy with the Austrian Empire because of the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina to Austria-Hungary which the Serbs had fought for, and they didn’t like that. Even though Archduke Franz Ferdinand wasn’t the Emperor of Austria-Hungary yet, the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand was