Bosniaks Essays

My encounter with Denis Hopovac was a unique one. Denis is a Bosnian man, who is in his early 30s. I have been observing him for some weeks during our weekly workshops, and this week I intended to introduce myself and know more about his experiences as a Bosnian man in the United States. During my observations, I saw that Denis has a friendly personality; however, he is a closed box when it comes to sharing things that he has gone through. So, I thought that I can get along with him if I can find

In 1991 Yugoslavia’s republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina (Bosnia) had a population of four million people from three major ethnic groups; Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim 44%), Serb (31%), Croat (17%) and Yugoslav (8%). On April 5, 1992, Bosnia declared their independence from Yugoslavia. The creation of an independent Bosnian nation that would have a majority population of Bosniak was opposed by Bosnian Serbs. Bosnia was the most ethnically diverse of Yugoslavia’s republics, with 43 percent Muslims, 35 percent

and Bosnian Croats who were also Christian, and also some Bosnian Muslims known as Bosniaks. In 1991 Yugoslavia started falling apart; the troubles lasted until 1995 although the country is still recovering from the aftermath of the war. Timeline 1992 February 29th until March 1st - Bosnia's Muslims and Croatians vote for independence from Serbia April 6th - Bosnian Serbs begin their siege on

“What is the ‘Sudan Genocide’?” The “Darfur Genocide” indicates to the ongoing slaughter and rape of Darfuri women, men, and children in Sudan. This genocide is referred to as “the first genocide of the 21st century”, as the killings started to occur in 2003. In Sudan, trauma and violence still lingers. As thousands have been killed and over a million are injured no shelter, Sudan is now filled with famine and annihilation. “Where is the Sudan Genocide occurring?” The genocide is occurring in

population in Bosnia, however by 1991 more Serbians and Croatians emigrated. A census revealed that out of Bosnia’s population of over 4 million there was 44% Bosniak, 31% Serbian, and 17% Croatian civilians. These three ethnicities combined after the emergence of a coalition government split between parties during elections in 1990 led by Bosniak Alija Izetbegovic. Because of the suffocating tensions between parties and ethnicities, Radovan Karadzic, the Bosnian Serb leader, withdrew his Serbian Democratic

Orthodox Christianity (serbs), and Roman Catholics (croats). In Bosnia it has a population of 43% Muslim or Bosniaks, 35% Orthodox Serbs, and 18% Catholic Croats. For a while there were no disputes between groups because they shared a common enemy, The federation of Yugoslavia. Once the federation collapsed the groups would see their differences and tensions would rise. To the Serbs and Bosniaks religion was very important to their national identity. Each group saw themselves as their own, and were

Bosnia and Herzegovina declared independence in 1992 it quickly became the central place of fighting.The Serbs targeted Bosniak and Croatian civilians in areas under their control in a campaign of ethnic cleansing. From the war and the fighting from ethnic and religious reasons over 100,000 people lost their lives. The height of the killing took place in July 1995 when 8,000 Bosniaks were killed in what became known as the Srebrenica genocide, the largest massacre in Europe after the Holocaust.

on Srebrenica, overwhelming a battalion of Dutch peacekeeping forces stationed there. Serbian forces subsequently separated the Bosniak civilians at Srebrenica”(History.com). During the Srebrenica Massacre the Bosnian War was going on and this war caused the massacre in Srebrenica. This war caused conflicts between the Bosnian Serbs, the Bosnian Croats, and the Bosniak Muslims the conflict lead to the Serbs

The Bosnian conflict emerged after the split of Yugoslavia, and the Muslim Bosniaks wanted independence. Their plea for independence was rejected and thus a genocide in Bosnia began, with over 80,000 Bosniak casualties, making it the largest genocide in Europe since the Holocaust (United States Holocaust Museum). The United States took part in the war after humanitarian issues became a concern, with the casualties of Bosniaks, and NATO joined them. They (the U.S) did not only take a military stance

The term genocide was created by Raphael Lemkin as a means of describing the oppression inflected on the Jews during the Holocaust. He used the ancient Greek word genos (race, tribe) and the Latin word cide (killing), together they formed the word genocide. The Bosnian genocide, also known as a gendercide, was the second worst act of heinous crimes after what the Nazis had done to the Jews, which is known as the Holocaust. The Bosnian genocide was a horrific event in history that caused the death

group in the region to fight for control that lead to the Serbian people believing that Bosnia needed to be “ethnically cleansed”. April 1992, the “cleansing” began, they did this removing all Bosnian Muslims, also referred to as Bosniaks, the Serbians struck the Bosniaks with Yugoslavian military equipment and surrounded the capital cities, Sarajevo (2-3, 1). 1980 was a bad year to live in Yugoslavia

attacked the Bosniak Muslims and at one point 30,000 fled to a Dutch UN Headquarters building for protection from the Serbians, where only 7000 were admitted into safety (Bardgett). The UN was formed to protect citizens from genocide and were even planning for one to occur in Bosnia, yet failed terribly. Certain bodies were not discovered for six to seven years, and the Serbian perpetrators were not put on trial until decades later when the evidence was much less emphasized (Bardgett). The Bosniaks put their

Genocides are an extermination of a whole group of people. Some of the worst genocides that this world has ever seen have had millions of lives lost and families torn apart. Genocides usually are caused because one race or religion thinks that they are better than everyone else and take it out on another race or religion. Genocides are truly a horrible way to solve problems and end up with huge consequences. The genocide i will be talking about took place in bosnia and was one of the worst genocides

within Bosnia-Herzegovina: the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina, inhabited primarily by Bosniaks and Bosnian Croats, and the Republic Srpska (which includes Srebrenica), dominated by Serbs, both with their own political structures, economies, and educational systems, though connected through a central government. Refugees were guaranteed the right to return to their pre-war homes, but only a small number of Bosniaks opted to go back to Srebrenica, which had been re-inhabited by Bosnian Serbs who had

Chetniks from the national Yugoslavian “myths” and “heroes”. In terms of nationalistic aspiration the “Greater Serbia” combined with their Orthodox identity diversifies them inside the partisan movement and motivates them to the attacks in Bosniaks and Bosniak

genocide. Many of the rape happened with an intent to demoralize, inflict deep psychological terror, and fracture communities Rape Warfare by Beverly Allen addresses and expands on the use of rape as a genocidal strategy in the ethnic cleansing of Bosniaks and Croatians. Allen’s purpose in writing Rape Warfare while expanding on the limited scholarship for strategies of rape in cases of genocide is first and foremost about circulating the stories and experiences of victims and survivors of genocidal

led to the Bosnian Genocide. The next essential point assists in generating a grasp on this topic for understanding the climate prior to the Bosnian War. The SFRY had formed a federation of six republics and it brought together Serbians, Croatians, Bosniaks, Albanians, Slovenes, and other ethnic groups. The tensions and conflicts between these groups were successfully suppressed under the leadership of Josip Broz Tito who ran a relaxed communist regime. However, after his death in May 1980, tensions

The reading of Elie Wiesel’s “The Perils of Indifference” makes it have a clearer understanding. 8,000 Bosniaks were killed in what is known as the Srebrenica genocide, the largest massacre in Europe after the Holocaust, 25,000 women and children were expelled from towns while generals tried to hunt down 15,000 men. There were Serbs that targeted Bosniak civilians in a campaign of ethnic cleansing. Despite the war in Bosnia it had claimed the lives of a great estimation of 100

Everyone should be treated equally right? Well it has not always been like that. The Holocaust is an example of inequality, the Nazis killed the Jews because they were not as ethnicaly “supperior”. All races and ethnicities should be treated equally and shown the same respect as anyone else. No matter if their different or exactly the same. The Holocaust caused many people to be killed because of their race or ethnicity. This is called Ethnic Cleansing. This is not fair nor is it okay. Because

government start to slowly fall apart in piece by piece. In WW1 Austria-Hungary had conflicts and disagreements with Serbia. A serbian killed a prince from Austria-Hungary. The serbian killer was Gavrilo Princip along with four other Serbs and a Bosniak. The purpose for the killing was to break off Austria-Hungary’s south slavs provinces so they could be combined into a yugoslavia. The prince was Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his assassination basically lead to WW1. Austria-Hungary then declared war