History 6
White Armband Day
50 years after the Nazi decree that Jews should wear the star of David, Bosnian Muslims were ordered to wear white armbands, as they were marked for execution.
The Breakup of Yugoslavia
Over the course of just three years, torn by civil conflict and war, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia disintegrated into five successor states: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Slovenia, and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (later known as Serbia and Montenegro). Click on the interactive map to see how this unfolded.
Ethnic Cleansing in Bosnia
Ethnic cleansing was at the heart of the Bosnian war right from the earliest days.
Women of Bosnia
It belies the imagination: the horror of a mother as she tries in vain to protect her daughters from the attack of brutal, vicious soldiers. Elmina Kulašić pays tribute to her mother, and all the mothers of Bosnia.
Concentration Camps
The world first learned of the concentration camps in Bosnia after British Journalist Ed Vulliamy broke the Omarska story. An emaciated Fikret Alić appeared on the cover of Time Magazine, and suddenly, the realities of a hidden genocide became apparent.
Horrific that genocide denialism continues to be rewarded, 26 years on from the Bosnian genocide.
‘Serbia Honors 2019 Nobel Prize-Winner For Literature, Who Denies Srebrenica Genocide’ https://t.co/atoBQqRgsr
Horrendous https://t.co/65ek5MaQrh
Extremely upsetting to see that Peter Handke, who was awarded the Nobel Literature Prize despite his genocide denialism of the Bosnian genocide, is being honoured by Serb leadership in the same place where the brutal genocide of Bosniak Muslim was enacted.
https://t.co/kj3UGJeQBu