CAuses of War Bosnia and Silvia
CAuses of War Bosnia and Silvia
CAuses of War Bosnia and Silvia
the 43 months of siege. Throughout Bosnia, Bosnian Serb nationalists and the JNA
began a program of ethnic cleansing in order to create a "pure" Serbian territory.. Entire
villages were destroyedand thousands of Bosnians were driven from their homes, held in
detention camps, raped, tortured, deported, or killed. Rape was a military tactic to
destroy the bonds of families and communities. An international arms embargo was in
effect throughout the war, preventing the Bosnian government from obtaining the heavy
artillery and arms that it needed to fight the more sophisticated arsenals of the Serbian
and Croatian armies.