Bosnian War
The Bosnian War was an armed conflict that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1991 and 1995.
Regional history
At the imposed Paris Peace Treaties of 1919/1920 the 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 the total domination of Serbia and the Serbian King who became 'King of Yugoslavia'. It was in effect the Greater Serbia which had been a Serbian war aim of the 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 the 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 the Allies handed all of the previous Yugoslavia to the communists, who then proceeded with incredible mass murders of all whom they perceived as opponents.[1]
Collapse of Communism
Between 1990 and 1992 Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Slovenia and Macedonia had all declared themselves independent of Yugoslavia, and by the end of 1992, Croatia, Slovenia, and Bosnia-Herzegovina were all recognized internationally as independent nations who then joined the United Nations. Serbia and Montenegro, however, had not been accepted as independent nations as they had formed a new Federal Republic of Yugoslavia under the leadership of Slobodan Milosevic. This new entity had decided to recreate a new Yugoslavia by force.
War
A vicious war was now carried out by Serbia (with Montenegro) against all the constituent parts of the former Yugoslavia, notably against Croatia and Slovenia. The worst was the genocidal war carried out against ethic Croats and Muslims in Bosnia and Herzegovina by the Serbian forces, who, under the pretense of moving people out of battle areas separated out men and boys from the 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 the levels of barbarism that NATO was forced to intervene.
Sources
- ↑ Tolstoy, Count Nikolai, Victims of Yalta, Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1977, numerous reprints incl.1979, ISBN: 0-552-11030-2.
- Harris, Paul, Someone Else's War - Frontline Reports from the Balkan Wars 1991-92, Spa Books, Stevenage, U.K., 1992, ISBN: 0-907590-43-8
- Almond, Mark, Europe's Backyard War - War in the Balkans, Heinemann, London, 1994, ISBN: 0-434-00003-5.
- Rehac, Prof., Danijel, Through the Roads of Hell, Croatian Assoc., of Inmates of Serbian Concentration Camps, Zagreb, 2008, ISBN: 978-953-98342-8-7
