In 1991, Yugoslavia’s republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Bosnia) had a population of 4 million, composed of three main ethnic groups: Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim, 44 percent), Serb (31 percent), and Croat (17 percent), as well as Yugoslav (8 percent). Show On April 5, 1992, the government of Bosnia declared its independence from Yugoslavia. The creation of an independent Bosnian nation that would have a Bosniak majority was opposed by Bosnian Serbs, who launched a military campaign to secure coveted territory and “cleanse” Bosnia of its Muslim civilian population. The Serbs targeted Bosniak and Croatian civilians in areas under their control, in what has become known as “ethnic cleansing.” During the subsequent civil war that lasted from 1992 to 1995, an estimated 100,000 people were killed, 80 percent of whom were Bosniaks. In July 1995, Bosnian Serb forces killed as many as 8,000 Bosniak men and boys from the town of Srebrenica. It was the largest massacre in Europe since the Holocaust. Fighting ended after a NATO bombing campaign forced Bosnian Serbs to the negotiating table, and a peace agreement, the Dayton Accords, was signed in 1995. This page was last updated in July 2013. journal article Review: Ethnic Cleansing in Eastern Europe after 1945Reviewed Works: People on the Move: Forced Population Movements in Europe in the Second World War and Its Aftermath by Pertti Ahonen, Gustavo Corni, Jerzy Kochanowski, Rainer Schulze, Tamás Stark, Barbara Stelzl-Marx; A Clean Sweep? The Politics of Ethnic Cleansing in Western Poland, 1945—1960 by David Curp; National Cleansing: Retribution against Nazi Collaborators in Czechoslovakia by Benjamin Frommer; Terrible Fate: Ethnic Cleansing in the Making of Modern Europe by Benjamin Lieberman Review by: Gregor Thum Contemporary European History Vol. 19, No. 1 (Feb., 2010) , pp. 75-81 (7 pages) Published By: Cambridge University Press https://www.jstor.org/stable/40542751 This is a preview. Log in to get access Journal Information Contemporary European History covers the history of Eastern and Western Europe, including the United Kingdom, from 1918 to the present. By combining a wide geographical compass with a relatively short time span, the journal achieves both range and depth in its coverage. It is open to all forms of historical inquiry – including cultural, economic, international, political and social approaches – and welcomes comparative analysis. One issue per year explores a broad theme under the guidance of a guest editor. The journal regularly features contributions from scholars outside the Anglophone community and acts as a channel of communication between European historians throughout the continent and beyond it. Publisher Information Cambridge University Press (www.cambridge.org) is the publishing division of the University of Cambridge, one of the world’s leading research institutions and winner of 81 Nobel Prizes. Cambridge University Press is committed by its charter to disseminate knowledge as widely as possible across the globe. It publishes over 2,500 books a year for distribution in more than 200 countries. Cambridge Journals publishes over 250 peer-reviewed academic journals across a wide range of subject areas, in print and online. Many of these journals are the leading academic publications in their fields and together they form one of the most valuable and comprehensive bodies of research available today. For more information, visit http://journals.cambridge.org. Note: This article is a review of another work, such as a book, film, musical composition, etc. The original work is not included in the purchase of this review. Rights & Usage This item is part of a JSTOR Collection.
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