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 * Conflict in** **Yugoslavia****???**
 * Conflict in** **Yugoslavia****???**

Bosnia is a small predominantly Muslim country located in Western Europe along the Adriatic Sea. Bosnia emerged as its own country after the fall of Yugoslavia after its partition in WWII.
 * Where in the world is** **Bosnia****?**

In the genocide of Bosnia, Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic ordered his troops to raid its capital of Sarajevo after Bosnia declared its independence in 1992. Milosevic wanted to protect the minority of Serbians and killed thousands of civilians in Sarajevo.
 * Serbs vs. Muslims?**

The invasion of Sarajevo in 1992 sent Muslims into turmoil. Out of the capital civilian killings, 3,500 were children. Many of the acts were similar to the Holocaust during WWII. Young boys and men were sent to concentration camps, many people were killed in mass shootings, and young girls and women were tortured and raped by Serbians. In 1994 a mortar shell from the Serbians devastated a marketplace in Sarajevo, killing 68 and wounding over 200 civilians. The total death toll of the genocide in Bosnia was estimated at over 200,000 casualties.
 * How Were the Muslims Impacted?**

Initially, the United States did not want any involvement in the conflicts in Bosnia under the Bush administration. However in 1994, after the marketplace massacre in Sarajevo, Bill Clinton, the newly elected president, issued an ultimatum under NATO, proclaiming that the Serbians remove their troops and artillery from Bosnia’s capital. Serbians complied with the agreement. The United Nations also intervened, by trying to unite the Muslims and Croats in hopes to defeat the Serbs. However that plan was unsuccessful.
 * Did this have an International Impact?**

The worst genocidal act took place in one of the U.N. safe havens in 1995. Peacekeepers were randomly killed by Serbs, as well as over 8,000 males. Further more Serbian soldiers continued to rape hundreds of thousands of Muslim women.
 * What was the major turning point of the Genocide of** **Bosnia****?**

This cartoon shows how much of a deaf ear the U.S. and NATO took to the conflicts and murders in Bosnia. It took almost three years for the western world to take effective action to help alleviate the ethnic cleansing of Muslims in Bosnia.