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Country Case Studies

Bosnia and Herzegovina

An estimated 100,000 people were killed during the conflict in Bosnia between 1992 and 1995, including the July 1995 genocide of 8,000 Bosnian Muslims from Srebrenica. Learn more about what happened and what the international community could have done to prevent it below.

  • Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1992–1995

    Learn what led to the violence in Bosnia and what happened in its wake.

  • Srebrenica, 1993–1995

    Bosnian Serb forces systematically executed as many as 8,000 Bosnian Muslim males in Srebrenica—the largest massacre in Europe since the Holocaust.

  • Eyewitness Testimony

    Hear from individuals who experienced or witnessed the violence and its repercussions firshand.

  • International Decision Making in the Age of Genocide

    In July 2015, we observed the 20th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre, in which Bosnian Serb troops killed some 8,000 Muslim men and boys from the UN–designated “safe area.” Controversy remains over who was to blame for the failure of this major international peacekeeping effort.

  • Risk of Mass Killing

    Our quantitative assessment, from the Early Warning Project, estimates the risk of a new mass killing in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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