This article is about genocide that took place during the Bosnian War from 1992-1995. Other cases of genocide in the same region during World War II are covered in other articles.
The Bosnian Genocide or Bosnia Genocide was an organized killing of Bosnians, predominantly male Bosnian Muslims (Bosniaks) during the war between 1992 and 1995 by authorities of Republika Srpska and its Army.
The Bosnian Genocide is a term used by some academic and human rights institutions when referring to the case of genocide that to ...
Statement by Radovan Karadžić, co-founder of Republika Srpska and its first president, alluded to the origins of this ideology on March 4, 1992 to the Bosnian Parliament:
..."the road to which you want to take Bosnia and Herzegovina is the same highway of hell which Slovenia and Croatia took. Don't think you won't take Bosnia and Herzegovina to hell and the Muslims into annihilation... Muslims can't defend ...
(See Bosnian War)
On May 12, 1992, at a session of the Bosnian Serb Assembly, Radovan Karadžić announced the six "strategic objectives" of the Serbian people in Bosnia and Herzegovina:
Establish state borders separating the Serbian people from the other two ethnic communities.
Set up a corridor between Semberija and Krajina.
Establish a corridor in the Drina river valley, that is, eliminate the Drina as a border separating Serbian states.
Establish a border on the Una and Neretva rivers ...
