Bosnian+Genocide

// “Scream Bloody Murder” Video // -Media was there in full force, unlike Cambodian Genocide or the Holocaust, Genocide in Bosnia was on newspaper headlines. -March 1992, Yugoslavia broke up on ethnic borders when Bosnia-Herezgovina claimed independence. -Serbs (Orthodox Christians) wanted their own state. -Principle victims were Bosnian Muslims. -Serbs bombed the city, burned mosques and books, and systematically raped woman and girls. -Richard Holbrook- Washington insider felt U.S. had a moral obligation to intervene. - Serbs referred to the killings as “ethnic cleansing”. -U.N. banned arms sales to this region, which left Muslims defenseless. -U.N. Security Council sent a peace keeping force, whose main objective was to get supplies to victims, not stop killers. -July 1992, reporters found out about concentration camps where Muslim prisoners were tortured, sexually mutilated, and starved. -These images had not been seen since the Holocaust which stirred U.S. public opinion, but not enough to change U.S. foreign policy. -Bosnia’s Serbs forced Muslims to hand over property in exchange for their lives. -Clinton is elected in summer of ’92 promising he will used military force in Bosnia against Serbs. -Capital of Bosnia was under attack in December of 1992. -Serbs cut the power, bombed the city, blocked the roads, and snipers were everywhere. -Europeans opposed use of air force because their peacekeepers would receive the retaliation. -Ellie Weisel publicly challenged Clinton to do something about the bloodshed in Bosnia at the opening of the Holocaust Museum. -Clinton’s actions were far from his get tough words during his campaign before his election. -Until May 1994, Holbrook is called back from being German foreign advisor to   Bosnian foreign advisor. -Most Muslims sought protection in Srebrenesia by UN. -July 1995, Bosnian Serbs overran UN force there and captured town. -The soldiers handed out candy to kids. They staged a show to the media, then murdered 8,000 men. -Three years later, August 1995, Clinton finally left front with or without European consent. -U.S. and allied planes attacked Bosnian Serb positions.
 * Bosnian Genocide Notes **