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1. Civil War in Yugoslavia
 Break-up
 Ethnic Cleansing
 Crisis in Kosovo

2. Yugoslavia after World
War I
 Homeland for Slavs
 It consisted of
various republics:
Serbia, Croatia,
Bosnia, Herzegovina,
Macedonia, Slovenia
and Montenegro

3. Religious Groups within
Yugoslavia
 Orthodox Christians:
Serbians
 Roman Catholics:
Croatians
 Muslims: Bosnians
 The groups had distinct
customs and religions
but spoke the same
language
 SERBS DOMINATED
THE STATE

4. Yugoslavia post WW II
 Josip Broz Tito
(Marshall) ruled
Yugoslavia with an
IRON hand until his
death in 1980.
 Post Tito the
economy weakens
and age old ethnic
conflicts flare up.

5. Yugoslavia Post WW II
 1991 Communism
collapses in
Eastern Europe
 Civil War breaks
out between the
Croatians,
Muslims and
Serbians

6. Yugoslavia Post World War II
 Serbian leader
Slobodan
Milosevic stirs up
ethnic unrest in his
country leading
to……

8. Bosnian Civil War 1992-1996
 The war erupted between Muslims,
Serbians and Croatians
 Serbs living in Bosnia received money
and arms from Serbian leader Slobodan
Milosevic
 The Muslims, who were the majority did
not want the country divided into ethnic
regions

10. Genocide
 Slobodan Milosevic
led the Serbs and
had a huge military
advantage
 Troops were ordered
to gather up mass
Muslims and shoot
them or force them to
flee their village.

11. UN peacekeepers
 In Srebrenica, U.N.
peacekeepers stood by
helplessly as the Serbs
under the command of
General Ratko Mladic
systematically selected
and then slaughtered
nearly 8,000 men and
boys between the ages
of twelve and sixty - the
worst mass murder in
Europe since World War
II.

12. Slaughter
 The grave contained
victims of the 1995
Srebrenica
massacre, in which
about 8,000 Muslim
men and boys were
killed by Bosnian
Serb troops.

13. The Genocide
 Police regularly
committed human
rights abuses in the
form of torture or
physical abuse.
 People young and
old were thrown in
trucks and shipped
off to their deaths.
 Escapees were shot
or decapitated if
caught.
Young child who
was murdered by
military officers.

14. UN, NATO and RUSSIA
work for peace
 1995 NATO
launched air
strikes against
the Bosnian
Serb military
 Dayton Accords
= peace
agreements

15. After the Genocide
 Up to 200,000 men, and boys over 13 years
old, were killed.
 Bosnian women and girls were held captive,
raped and released when they were pregnant
with Serbian babies
 The slaughtering was carried out by strict
military orders.
 Thousands of bodies were buried in mass
graves.
 There are still 20,000 people listed as missing
in Bosnia.

16. Kosovo Crisis – Now
Independent
 Kosovo is a province in
Serbia sacred to Christian
Serbs
 90% of its inhabitants are
ethnic Albanians who are
Muslim
 Milosevic stripped Kosovo of
its autonomy and established
martial law
 Ethnic cleansing of Albanians
began
 NATO held air strikes against
Serbs

17. International War Crimes
Trial for: Slobodan Milosevic
 Tried by the ICJ for
crimes against
humanity
 Trial lasted 4 years
 Prior to sentencing in
March 2006 he died
in jail

18. “The tragedy of Srebrenica
will forever haunt the history
of the United Nations.” –
Kofi Annan