IMPLICATIONS OF BOSNIAN WAR ON THE LIFE OF MUSLIM COMMUNITY

Abstract

ABSTRACT

After the breakdown of Yugoslavia, Muslim areas of Bosnia and Herzegovina declared its independence.  The local Bosnian Serbs and Yugoslavia, who were not ready to accept the Bosnian independence started to attack the Bosnian Muslim community. The situation finally leading to the genocide of the unarmed Muslims community in which thousands of Muslims were displaced from their native areas as well. Destruction of basic infrastructure including houses, hospital, schools and mosques increased the intensity of the gravity. The arrests of thousands of innocent Bosnian Muslims and cruel treatment with them by the Serbs left a deep psychic wound in the mind and heart of the coming generation. A question that how killing of the innocent Muslims, forced migration from native areas to the unknown and relatively safer areas created a major catastrophe will be addressed during the course of study. With the consultation of different sources including books, newspapers and websites, the research reveals the situation of the Bosnian war where the war crimes have been committed by the Yugoslavian army and the local Serbs against the Muslims of Bosnia deteriorated to the point of no return.

KEY WORDS:  Breakdown, Bosnian Serbs, Yugoslavia, Concentration Camps, War Crimes