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This informative and editable presentation contains 33 slides, with maps and photos, and it will be ideal resource for teaching Genocide in Bosnia in July of 1995. It is a great tool for your students to find out about the causes, effects, remembrance, role of UN and all other important facts connected to Bosnian Genocide, the largest massacre in Europe after the Holocaust.<br><br>The full presentation can be find here:<br>https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Genocide-in-Bosnia-Herzegovina-4775562<br>
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Table of Contents • The Fall of Srebrenica • Srebrenica Refugees • The Role of UN • Genocide at Srebrenica • Excavations • Remembering Srebrenica • NATO intervention • Denial • Dayton Peace Agreement • Effects of War • The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia • The Break-up of Yugoslavia • The Rise of Nationalismin Serbia • Independence • The Beginning of the Bosnian War • Ethnic Cleansing • Civil Victims • The Siege of Sarajevo • Failed Peace Proposals • Definition of Genocide • Occupation of Srebrenica in 1993
The Break-up of Yugoslavia AfterTito’sdeath in 1980, the order he imposed began to unravel. In the 1980s the rapid decline of the Yugoslav economy led to widespread public dissatisfaction with the political system. The various ethnic groups and republics inside Yugoslavia sought independence,
Independence • On April 5, 1992, the government of Bosniadeclared its independence from Yugoslavia. • Of the nearly two-thirds of the electorate that did cast a vote, almost all voted for independence, which Bosnian President Izetbegović officially proclaimed on March 3, 1992.
Civil Victims • By the end of the war, approximately 55,000 civilians were murdered. • It is estimated that over 600 camps and detention centersexisted in Bosnia during the war. Most of the inmates were civilians, but there were also camps for prisoners of war and deserters. Some detainees were held in several camps for years. 27 June 1992: A man supports the head of a Bosnian woman badly injured by a Serbian mortar shelling in Sarajevo as she is transported to a hospital in the back of a car
On 5 April 1992 Bosnian Serb Nationalists placed Sarajevo, the Bosnian capital, under siege. 13,000 Bosnian Serb troops encircled the city, their snipers taking position in the surrounding hill and mountains. From here, residents were relentlessly and indiscriminately bombarded by mortar shells and suffered under constant fire from snipers. The Siege of Sarajevo The Executive Council Building after being hit by artillery fire in 1992 Residents of Sarajevo duck sniper fire during the 1992
The Fall of Srebrenica • In 1993, the United Nations (UN) Security Council declared Srebrenicaand other Muslim enclaves were to be safe areas, protected by a contingent of UN peacekeepers. • The UN deployed troops and the Serb attacks stopped. • However, the town remained isolated and only a few humanitarian convoys reached it in the following two years. Dutch UN peacekeepers sit on top of an armored personnel carrier while Muslim refugees from Srebrenica gather in the village of Potocari, just north of Srebrenica, on July 13, 1995.
The Fall of Srebrenica • Serbian forces subsequently separated the Bosniak civilians at Srebrenica, putting the women and girls on buses and sending them to Bosnian-held territory. • Serbsexpelled 25,000 women and children from the town, while theirforces tried to hunt down approximately 15,000 Bosniak men who had tried to escape to safety in central Bosnia. • Up to 3,000 were killed, either by gunshot or by decapitation, while trying to escape. A woman from Srebrenica screams at a United Nations soldier in a refugee camp in Tuzla, Bosnia, July 17, 1995.
Bulletholes pepper a wall where Bosnian Muslims were executed at an agricultural cooperative near Srebrenica
Fadila Efendic prays near memorial plaques at the Potocari genocide memorial centre near Srebrenica. Fadila lost her son and husband in the Srebrenica massacre.
Denial Most Serbs, both in Bosnia and Serbia whose 1990s leadership armed and funded Bosnian Serb forces, strongly deny that the massacre was genocide as judged by the UN war crimes tribunal for former Yugoslavia. They dispute the death toll and the official account of what happened, reflecting conflicting narratives about how and why Yugoslavia broke up in bloodshed. That divide continues to hinder reconciliation and stifle Bosnia's progress toward integration with Western Europe. Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic at the court.
