Ana Antic
Department of Political Science and History, American University in Bulgaria Blagoevgrad 2700, Bulgaria
ABSTRACT
The 1992-1995 civil war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, multi-ethnic and multi-confessional former Yugoslav state, saw some of the most distorted atrocities, as well as human and moral failure, of the twentieth century. This paper concentrates on one particular case of genocidal ethnic cleansing in the Bosnian conflict: that conducted by the Serbian military, police and paramilitary forces against the Bosniac Muslim and (to a lesser extent) Bosnian Croat civilian population. The paper examines various war crimes from specific viewpoint: it attempts to explain why the cleansers cleansed, what the definition of their motivation might be; the mind set and propaganda of the Serbian regime and warmongering section of the Cultural and NGO sector is, therefore, thoroughly investigated. We identified two major components of numerous official rationalizations of the genocide: call for a preventive self-defense of the Serbian nation and state, and dehumanization of the victimized community by invoking scornful attitudes towards Bosnaic Muslims on the part of Serbian fighters.
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Ana Antic, 2002. The Ethnic Cleansing in Bosnia-Herzegovina in the Period of 1992/95: Mind set of Cleansers. Journal of Applied Sciences, 2: 643-645.
DOI: 10.3923/jas.2002.643.645
URL: https://scialert.net/abstract/?doi=jas.2002.643.645
DOI: 10.3923/jas.2002.643.645
URL: https://scialert.net/abstract/?doi=jas.2002.643.645