On 11 July 1995, Bosnian Serb forces massacres in Srebrenica.
It's also a long story, Sasha said simply.
The Balkans were originally a place of ethnic chaos and vendetta! Far from it, the Croatian Ustaše and the Serbian Chetnik during World War II were ultra-nationalist organizations.
Taking advantage of the chaos of World War II, these two organizations carried out ethnic vendettas in Yugoslavia with extremely brutal methods.
According to historian J. Lamp, more than 300,000 Serbs were killed by the end of 1942 ("Yugoslavia that Became History"); Again, the number of Croats killed by Chetnik is no less than this number.
Yugoslavia lost nearly 1.75 million people in World War II, or 11 percent of the population.
At least half of them died not at the hands of the Germans, but by their own vendettas.
This is not just as simple as killing, their killing methods are also very cruel, including beheading, caesarean section, burning, gouging out eyes and so on. The viciousness of their methods even frightened the German army!
During Tito's Yugoslav era, the policy of national equality was implemented and the economy developed rapidly.
Tito's foresight, as well as the Yugoslavs' vendetta against World War II, are still fresh in their memories, and the country is generally stable.
However, the contradictions between ethnic groups have not disappeared, but are only temporarily hidden.
The Tito era suppressed the extreme national forces of all nationalities, especially Greater Serbism. This is Tito's cleverness!
The Great Serbians provoked World War I and were a great threat to the country.
With the death of Tito, coupled with the deterioration of the situation inside and outside Yugoslavia, disintegration was inevitable.
At that time, there were six republics in Yugoslavia: Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Montenegro and two autonomous provinces, Kosovo and Vojvodia.
With the exception of Montenegro and Vojvodin, which had fewer national complexes, the remaining republics quickly and strongly demanded national independence.
In this critical situation, the President of the Republic of Serbia, Slobodan Milosevic, is still adding fuel to the fire.
Today even Serbs consider Milosevic a clumsy politician.
While the republics were separating, Milosevic pursued Greater Serbianism and tried to establish a Yugoslavia in which Serbs held the main power.
This is, of course, ridiculous and even ridiculous, and he does not look at what the situation is.
In fact, Milosevic himself understood that such a claim would simply not be realized, even if Tito was resurrected.
Milosevic had in mind the creation of a small Yugoslavia, that is, a state that included all Serb-inhabited areas of Yugoslavia, with a territory much larger than the Republic of Serbia.
When Slovenia declared independence in a referendum in 1991, Milosevic did little to stop it. The reason is simple, there are practically no Serbs in Slovenia.
Croatia then announced that Milosevic's attitude was completely different.
When the war broke out in Croatia, Milosevic supported the independence of the Serbs of Croatia and joined Serbia. The bitter war lasted for several years, and finally Croatia became independent and the Serbs within it gained some autonomy.
In the same year, Macedonia and Bosnia and Herzegovina also declared independence.
There are almost no Serbs in Macedonia, Milosevic does not pay attention, but Bosnia and Herzegovina is completely different. More than 40 per cent of Bosnian Muslims (Muslims), more than 30 per cent Serbs and more than 10 per cent are Croats.
Milosevic was unwilling to abandon the Serbs in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the most terrible civil war in Bosnia and Herzegovina broke out.
The civil war was terrible, with ethnic massacres on all three sides.
The Serbs are the strongest militarily, easily occupying 70 per cent of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croats 20 per cent and Muslims only 10 per cent. The disparity in strength is so that most of the massacres in Bosnia and Herzegovina were carried out by Serbs.
Let's think about it, have you heard that there are weak people who slaughter the strong in large numbers? It doesn't make sense.
Nearly two years after the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, NATO began to intervene, hoping that the three sides would cease fire and stop the massacre of civilians.
Under NATO bombing, the Serbs on the attacking side were forced to stop their offensive until March 1995.
In July, Serbs were still scheming in Srebrenica and committing massacres against Muslims, knowing that NATO was watching.
And that's not unusual.
As early as the beginning of the war, the commander-in-chief of the Bosnian Serb army, Mladic, made a high-profile statement that he wanted to "completely disappear" the Bosnian Croats (Muslims) on the land of the Republika Srpska!
Srebrenica's geographical importance was so important that once it was destroyed, the Muslims were largely driven out of the east.
Srebrenica was originally a safe zone designated by the United Nations, manned by 2,000 Dutch troops.
However, under the surprise and siege of Serb forces, the Dutch peacekeepers did not dare to resist and almost all became prisoners.
On 12 July, Serb militants began dispersing the Muslim population and separating all men except boys. The disappearance of these Muslim men, totalling more than 8,300 men, was all massacred en masse.
After the end of the civil war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a large number of bones were found in Srebrenica.
After identification, 6,598 deceased persons were identified. There are also the remains of some missing persons, which have not yet been found.
The Srebrenica massacre was almost public. The militants even pulled Dutch peacekeepers to watch to show off their cruelty.
One month after Srebrenica, NATO began bombing Serb forces on an unprecedented scale. NATO dispatched more than 3,400 sorties and bombed for half a month. The Muk and Croat armies took the opportunity to counterattack and advance step by step, eventually approaching roughly the territorial ratio determined for both sides by the contact groups of the United States, Russia, Britain, France, and Germany. Cyprus lost its military superiority and was forced to agree to the participation of the FRY in the Bosnian peace talks chaired by the United States.
Bosnia and Herzegovina continues to exist as a unitary sovereign State, consisting of two entities, the Mukh Federation, which controls 51 per cent of the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Serb Republika Srpska for 49 per cent.
Thus ended the civil war in Bosnia and Herzegovina! The country has lost nearly one-tenth of its population, half of its population has become refugees, more than 85% of the country's economic facilities have been destroyed, and there is rubble everywhere.
There is really little controversy about the Srebrenica massacre.
There is a lot of human and material evidence, and a large number of bones have been exhumed.
In 2010, even the Serbs themselves admitted it. The Serbian parliament adopted a resolution by a narrow majority apologizing publicly for the massacre.
On March 24, 2016, former President of the Republika Srpska Srpska Karadzic was convicted of "genocide" and "other war crimes" by the UN Special Court in The Hague and sentenced to 40 years in prison.
On November 22, 2017, Mladic, former commander-in-chief of the Bosnian Serb army, was convicted by the United Nations Special Court in The Hague and sentenced to life imprisonment.
It should be noted that the Srebrenica massacre was the largest massacre in Europe since World War II.