BOSNIAN GENOCIDE:

The Bosnian Genocide took place from the years 1992 to 1995 during a war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The main ethnic groups involved in the conflict were Serbs, Croats, and the Muslims of Bosnia. In 1992, Muslims mostly occupied the recently independent country of Bosnia and the Serbs only represented 32 percent of the population. After Bosnia’s independence declaration, the Serbs formed an army and attacked the capital city of Sarajevo. There they used snipers to kill innocent Muslim civilians including 3,500 children. Soon, Serbs, under Ratko Mladic, the leader of the Bosnian Serb army, began systematically capturing and murdering Muslims of all ages and used rape, mass shooting, forced evacuations, and makeshift concentration camps as tactics to “cleanse” Bosnia of its Muslim population. They went so far as to lie to the Muslim population and promise safe evacuation in order to separate the men and systematically murder them.

For a long period, the UN refused to engage militarily to stop the genocide in Bosnia, even though the entire world knew of the tragedy that was unfolding. They supplied refugees with food and aide but did little to prevent future exterminations. Finally, the US, under Bill Clinton, demanded that the Serbs withdraw their artillery from the capitol. Genocide activity, however, continued in Bosnia until August 1995, when the US effectively intervened military, began a bombardment of Serbian artillery positions, and drew back Serbian troops. Finally, in November 1995, negotiations were made and Bosnia was partitioned into two main portions, the Croat-Muslim Federation and the Republika Srpska (Serb Republic).

At the end of the treacherous genocide, nearly 200,000 Muslim civilians were murdered, 20,000 were missing and nearly 2 million had fled from their homes and lived as refugees.

US Genocide Resolutions
H.RES.199
S.RES.134