Tag Archives: Persecution of Muslims in Bosnia

Zvornik Genocide: Serb Testifies Against Radovan Karadzic at the Hague

The trial of Radovan Karadzic continued with the evidence of a Serb from Zvornik. In his statement to the OTP investigators, the witness described how the Serb forces attacked Zvornik, how Bosniaks were detained and the mass murders that took place at … Continue reading

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Court: Šešelj’s Serbs Killed Babies & Pregnant Women, Carved Muslim Bodies with Crosses

The prosecutors contend that they have proven the responsibility of the Serbian Radicals’ leader for ‘cruel crimes’ against civilians in Croatia, Vojvodina and Bosnia-Herzegovina. The crimes include the murder of children and newborn babies, pregnant women, the elderly and the … Continue reading

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Serbian Security Officer: Intention in Srebrenica was to Kill All Boys and Men

BIRN — Continuing his testimony at the trial of Radovan Karadzic, Momir Nikolic, former Serb officer with the Republika Srpska Army, VRS, says that, two days after the fall of Srebrenica, July 13, 1995, it was known that the captured … Continue reading

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Srebrenica: Bozidar Kuvelja on Trial for Shooting 100 Bosniaks

BIRN –The Trial Chamber of the State Court has postponed the trial of Bozidar Kuvelja, who is charged with genocide in Srebrenica, explaining that a legal counselor has to be appointed for a protected Prosecution witness, who was due to … Continue reading

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Jasko Gazdic Case: Bosniak Rape Victim Testifies in Court

BIRN — A protected State Prosecution witness testifies in absence of the public at the trial of Jasko Gazdic, who is charged with crimes committed in the Foca area. The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina accepted a proposal made by … Continue reading

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Brown: Serbs Herded Bosniaks in “Cattle Trucks” for Deportation

BIRN — On the second day of presentation of his findings and opinion at the trial of Radovan Karadzic, Prosecution military expert witness Ewan Brown says that the Republika Srpska Army, VRS forcibly relocated thousands of non-Serbs from Bosnian Krajina … Continue reading

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Netherlands: Serbian General Convicted for Terrorism in Bosnia

The Hague, 5 December 2003 CVO/P.I.S/ 807e Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia is sitting today to deliver its Judgement in the trial of General Stanislav Galic. General Galic is accused of having conducted, … Continue reading

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International Judgement on Serb Terrorism in Bosnia

The Hague, 12 December 2007 JP/MOW/ PR1205e General Dragomir Milošević (Serb) sentenced to 33 years’ imprisonment for crimes committed in Sarajevo The Tribunal today found Dragomir Milošević, a former Bosnian Serb Army general, guilty of a range of crimes committed … Continue reading

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Serbs Slaughtered Bosniaks Before Oric’s Kravica Attack

The 1992 Suha Massacre. Region: Srebrenica-Bratunac Let us not forget. “On 10 May 1992 — more than three years before the July 1995 Srebrenica genocide, eight months before Naser Oric’s counter-attack on the Serb village of Kravica and in the … Continue reading

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No Early Release for Serb Mass Rapist of Bosniak Women & Girls

Former member of the Bosnian Serb military police Dragan Zelenovic filed a motion for early release after he has served one third of his 15-year prison sentence. Zelenovic pleaded guilty to rape and torture of Bosniak women and girls in … Continue reading

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Shelling in Sarajevo Kills 21, Wounds 135

The Press-Courier, p.13 23 June 1992. SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Mortars rained down Monday on battered Sarajevo, killing at least 21 people, wounding at least 135 others and shattering U.N. efforts to open the airport to relief supplies. One of … Continue reading

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Ethnic Cleansing: Bosnian Muslims in Cattle Cars for Livestock

During Serbian campaign of ethnic cleansing in Bosnia and Herzegovina — which reached levels of Genocide in Prijedor, and many other municipalities — open and closed train carriages and cattle cars for livestock were used to transport Bosniak civilians to … Continue reading

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Trnopolje Concentration Camp Survivor Dr. Idriz Merdžanić

Background: On Trnopolje concentration camp, see: Bosniak Boy Forced to Have Sex With Dead Mother and Bosnian Muslim Girls Raped in Trnopolje. The Serb Red Cross from Prijedor charged prisoners in the Trnopolje concentration camp for food. Women were often raped … Continue reading

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Srebrenica Massacre, Victims’ Bones

Three years before the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, Serbs destroyed 296 Bosniak villages and killed at least 3,166 Bosniaks around Srebrenica. In 1993, the UN described the situation in Srebrenica as a “slow-motion process of genocide.” In July 1995, Serbs forcibly … Continue reading

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Karadzic: Bosnian Muslim Children Raped by Serbs

SENSE TRIBUNAL — Protected witness KDZ 051 described at the trial of Radovan Karadzic the ordeal of a parent whose seven-and-a-half year old daughter and 13-year old son were raped by the Serb forces in Rogatica in 1992. The witness, … Continue reading

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Photos: Victims of Genocide in Bosnia Abandoned in Orphanage

 

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Photos: Bosniak Women Brutally Raped by Serbs

 

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Modified Air Bombs Used in Bombardment of Sarajevo

From 1992 till the end of 1995, Serb army (Vojska Republike Srpske or VRS) held Sarajevo under a brutal siege. Serb army carried out a campaign of sniping and shelling that resulted in injury to and death of at least … Continue reading

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Bosnia Fighting Goes to Bihac

By Dan Stets Philadelphia Inquirer Lakeland Ledger, p.Front, 5A 19 August 1992. BIHAC, Bosnia-Herzegovina — The artillery shell struck the front of the department store in the center of town, spraying shrapnel over a crowd of money changers and their … Continue reading

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Srebrenica: Sexual Abuse & Rape of Women

Background on Srebrenica: From 1992-1995 Serbs from heavily militarized villages around Srebrenica had forced approximately 40,000 Bosniak refugees to live in the Srebrenica ghetto with little or no means of survival. Furthermore, Serbs around Srebrenica had terrorized Srebrenica population by … Continue reading

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50 Bosniak Civilians Killed in Sokoline Massacre in June 1992

“‘I drank the blood of my relatives and neighbors as it poured down to the floor on which I lay…’ More than 200 persons were held in the fuel tanks, the witness claimed. Among them were Hajra Delic and Enver … Continue reading

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Rearming the Bosnian Muslims May Be Only Way to Help Them

The Item, p.A6 20 April 1994. It has been a week since United States fighters representing NATO bombed Bosnian Serb positions around the embattled city of Gorazde. What has been the result of that air strike in curtailing or at … Continue reading

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Jews in Miami Protest Abuses at Serbian Concentration Camps

The News, A3 11 August 1992. MIAMI BEACH (AP) — A Jewish human rights group dedicated to the memory of the Holocaust called Monday for military intervention to stop the bloody ethnic conflict in what was Yugoslavia. President Bush should … Continue reading

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Horrors of the Bosnian Genocide, Desperate Bosniak Villagers See Not Exit

Credits: The following is another horrifying testimony from the horrors of the Bosnian Genocide (1992-1995) by Sally Jacobs with introduction by András Riedlmayer. Reprint courtesy: Bosnian Institute, U.K. Everyone by now knows about the massacre at Srebrenica and the terrible 44-month-long … Continue reading

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Genocide in Ključ: Biljani Massacre (1992), Bulldozers Used to Remove Bodies

Over the next several days, the Chetniks went out on a killing spree in Biljani and the surrounding villages. Between 7 p.m. and 9 p.m., from their hide-outs, the rest of the Bosniaks watched the bulldozers removing the dead bodies. … Continue reading

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