“Ethnic Cleansing”
The war in Bosnia and Herzegovina began in the spring of 1992 and witnessed the death of over 200,000 and the injury of over 200,000 citizens, which included 50,000 children. These numbers of dead and injured were the result of concentration camps, and the massacres of civilians. The attacks brought about the exodus of 2.5 million civilians from Bosnia and Herzegovina regardless of their ethnic background.
The declaration of independence in Bosnia and Herzegovina brought war and the rapid occupation of over half the territory by the Serbs. “Ethnic cleansing” followed in all the territories claimed by each ethnic group. In the years after the war in 1995 leaders and military leaders of several ethnic groups were indicted by the Hague war crimes tribunal.
The Croats and the Serbs went beyond a war that would lead to the occupation and control of Bosnia and Herzegovina to a horrific process called “ethnic cleansing” where the participants set out to remove other ethnic groups in the areas the occupied.
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