Bosnian Genocide

  • Bosnian-Herzegovina annexed out of the Ottoman Empire

    Bosnia-Herzegovina was originally in the Ottoman Empire, but is annexed (kicked out) by Austria and Hungary.
  • Assassination of Austrian archduke Franz Ferdinand

    Gavrilo Princip, a Bosian Serb student, has assassinated Austrian archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo causing World War One.
  • Bosnia-Herzegovina Liberation

    Bosnia-Herzegovina shows social convention and was liberated by following the campaign by partisans under Tito.
  • Bosnia's Muslims and Croats(The Victims) voting for their independence

    Feb 29 - March 1, Bosnia's Muslims and the Croats vote for their independence in a referendum boycotted by Serbs.
  • January - Bosnia peace efforts fail, war breaks out between Muslims and Croats, previously allied against Serbs.

    War Breaks out after Bosnia peace efforts fail, Croats(Was the Victims but then became the perpetrators) joined the Serb's Side
  • Bosnian Serb troops capturing eastern territory and a safe area of Srebrenica

    Bosnian Serbs troops, under the command of General Ratko Mladic, capture the eastern territory and U.N. “Safe area” of Srebrenica, Killing about 8000 Muslim males in the following week. Karadzic and Mladic are charged with genocide for the siege of Sarajevo by the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague.
  • Nationalist winning the first post-war election

    September - Nationalist parties win first post-war election, confirming Bosnia’s ethnic division
  • Radovan Karadzic (The Main Perpetrator) losing his power

    Having lost power, Karadzic goes underground
  • Former Yugoslav President goes on trial

    Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic goes on trial charged with 66 counts of genocide and war crimes in Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo.
  • Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic goes on trial charged with 66 counts of genocide and war crimes in Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo.

    Bosnian Serb wartime president Radovan Karadzic, one of the world’s most wanted men for planning and ordering genocide, is arrested
  • Serbian authorities arrested Ratko Mladic (The Leader of the Serb Army)

    Serbian authorities arrest former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic, one of the world’s most wanted war crimes suspects