An Eye For An Eye
Civillian death toll amounted to 200,000. The genocide lasted from March 1992 to December 1995. 3500 children killed. Women were sold into slavery. Mostly men aged from 12-60 were systematically hunted and killed. Many Bosniaks were driven into concentration camps, where women and girls were systematically gang-raped and other civilians were tortured, starved and murdered.
In 1993, the United Nations Security Council declared that there would be safe areas, protected by UN peacekeepers. But in July 1995, Serbs committed the largest massacre since World War II in Europe. It's estimated 23,000 women, children and elderly people were put on buses and driven to the Muslim-controlled territory, while 8,000 “battle-age” men were detained and slaughtered. The peace keepers did not fire once. Hatidza Mehmedovic, a survivor of the genocide, lost her two sons and husband when they went to take shelter at the UN base at Potocari. When they arrived there, they found it to be controlled by Ratko Mladic, who had been there for days torturing and killing other muslims. |