Genocidal violence in the former Yugoslavia: Bosnia Herzegovina

In the 1990s the multi-ethnic, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia dissolved into several wars with far more than two million people displaced and tens of
thousands killed. Yugoslavia's descent into war and genocidal violence began in 1991, when the republic of Slovenia and the republic of Croatia declared their independence. The conflict lasted 7 months and included the deliberate destruction of towns and cities, massacres of civilians and the forcible removal of ethnic groups from their territory. This sort of campaign came to be known as 'ethnic cleansing' - a term that tells little of the horror inflicted upon affected civilians