Bosnia was once part of the former Yugoslavia.
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Bosnia was once
part of the
former Yugoslav
ia.
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During the Cold War, Yugoslavia
was ruled by the
communistdictator, Tito.
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Yugoslavia had been formedin 1918 after World War I.It was reformed after theSecond World War. Butby the early 1990s, it wasfalling apart.
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By 1992, Bosnia had declaredits independence from Yugoslavia.
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While the majority of Bosnianswere Muslims, there was aSerbian Christian minority.
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The Serbs in Bosnia wanted to form a greater Serbia and
turned to the Serbian President
of Yugoslavia, Slobodan Milosevic,
who ordered an attacks onMuslim civilians.
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A program of “ethnic cleansing”began as over 200,000 BosnianMuslims were killed.
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Eventually, NATO peacekeepingtroops arrived in 1995 and by2000, Milosevic was ousted frompower and turned over to a UNwar crimes tribunal in The Hague.
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Milosevic was charged withgenocide but died in the detention center before thetrial concluded.
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But genocide was not confined toBosnia. Between April and Juneof 1994, over 800,000 Rwandanswere killed when the President’splane was shot down.
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The President was a memberof the Hutu ethnic group. Hutusaccused Tutsis, a different ethnicgroup, of the killing.
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Hutus began killing Tutsis. Many innocent peoplewere killed.
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Eventually, a Tutsi rebel grouptook over the government andthe Hutu leaders fled.
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In the Sudan, the governmentwas accused of favoring theArab pastoralists over the black African farmers.
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When rebel groups attacked,the government respondedwith violence.
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The Janjaweed, gunmen onhorseback, have been accusedof trying to “cleanse” blackAfricans from Darfur in westernSudan.
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Many Africans have been killedin Darfur. In Darfur, BlackAfricans are either Christianor practice traditional religions.Arabs practice Islam.
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Religious and ethnic conflictscontinue to plague the worldand sadly, genocide sometimes occur.