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The Role Of Genocide In Bosnia

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In 1992, the Yugoslav republic of Bosnia declared its independence from Yugoslavia. By 1995 over 100,000 people were killed for being Bosnian Muslim or just Croatian citizens. The Bosnian Serb forces were responsible for the killings. It was worst act of genocide since the killing of six million Jews during World War ll. These terrible acts of killing come from a clash of Serbian separatist and Croatian forces. During the 1970’s in Bosnia, Muslims has the largest single population. During the next 20 years Croatians and Serbs emigrated and the population of 4 million 44% was still Bosnia while 31% was Serb and 17% Croatian. The other 8% is other. There elections represented there three different ethnic groups. There were many times during

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