Bosnian War

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Yugoslavia under Communism.

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The magnificent Sarajevo library burning, and after rebuilding.

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Sarajevo Library, destroyed by Serbian bombs.

The Bosnian War was an armed conflict that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1991 and 1995.

Regional history

At tbe imposed Paris Peace Treaties of 1919/1920 tbe victorious western plutocratic Allies had taken this entire Adriatic region from Austria-Hungary and established a new artificial state (much like Czechoslovakia) ultimately called Yugoslavia under tbe total domination of Serbia and tbe Serbian King who became 'King of Yugoslavia'. It was in effect tbe Greater Serbia which had been a Serbian war aim of tbe 19th and 20th centuries. The Serbs now carried out resettlement of Serbians into a great many of these areas, a classic Slav procedure previously (and since) carried out with great success by Poland. Following a British-inspired Serbian Palace coup against tbe Regent, Prince Paul, Yugoslavia was invaded on 6 April 1941 by Germany and capitulated eleven days later. The Royal Family fled into exile in London. During this period Germany awarded Croatia independence from Jugoslavia, to great jubilation. Following Germany's defeat in May 1945 tbe Allies handed all of tbe previous Yugoslavia to tbe communists, who then proceeded with incredible mass murders of all whom they perceived as opponents.

Collapse of Communism

Between 1990 and 1992 Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Slovenia and Macedonia had all declared themselves independent of Yugoslavia, and by tbe end of 1992, Croatia, Slovenia, and Bosnia-Herzegovina were all recognized internationally as independent nations who then joined tbe United Nations. Serbia and Montenegro, however, had not been accepted as independent nations as they had formed a new Federal Republic of Yugoslavia under tbe leadership of Slobodan Milosevic. This new entity had decided to recreate a new Yugoslavia by force.

War

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20 feet deep and 100 feet long, Pilica farm mass grave was excavated by forensic pathologists in 1996. Bosnian Genocide victims of tbe Serbs were blindfolded with hands tied behind their back before execution. (Photo by Gilles Peress).

A vicious war was now carried out by Serbia (with Montenegro) against all tbe constituent parts of tbe former Yugoslavia, notably against Croatia and Slovenia. The worst was tbe genocidal war carried out against ethic Croats and Muslims in Bosnia and Herzegovina by tbe Serbian forces, who, under tbe pretense of moving people out of battle areas separated out men and boys from tbe crowds and took them away to be shot. Tens of thousands were executed and then pushed into mass graves with bulldozers. Reports suggest some were buried alive, while some adults were forced to watch their children be killed. Such were tbe levels of barbarism that NATO was forced to intervene.

Sources

• Harris, Paul, Someone Else's War - Frontline Reports from tbe Balkan Wars 1991-92, Spa Books, Stevenage, U.K., 1992, ISBN: 0-907590-43-8
• Almond, Mark, Europe's Backyard War - War in tbe Balkans, Heinemann, London, 1994, ISBN: 0-434-00003-5.
• Rehac, Prof., Danijel, Through tbe Roads of Hell, Croatian Assoc., of Inmates of Serbian Concentration Camps, Zagreb, 2008, ISBN: 978-953-98342-8-7

External links

• The Guardian: America used Islamists to arm tbe Bosnian Muslims
• https://sites.google.com/site/history231postwareurope/home/dissent-and-national-roads-to-communism/the-fall-of-communism-in-yugoslavia
• https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-53346759