Groups involved
Aggressors- A Serbian named Slobodan Milosevic and a Croatian named Franjo Tudjman used television and radio as tools for propoganda. They exploited the already strained relations between the Serbs and Croats, and worked at dehumanizing the Muslims. Meanwhile, they prevented independent media workers from lobbying for multi-ethnic coexistence.
Serbian president Milosevic attempted to bring back negative memories of the Croats, exhuming mass graves of Serbs that the Ustasas (Croatian Nazi-like movement) had killed. This was used as a sort of proof that Croats were enemies. Radovan Karadzic, president of the illegitimate Bosnian Serb Republic, joined the other two men. His followers, the Bosnian Serbs, saw him as leader but denied their involvement in the genocide.
Perpetrators/Collaborators- The Serbian paramilitary perpetrators committed most of the atrocities. Bosnian Serbs wanted to be part of a dominant Serbian state in the Balkans called the "Greater Serbia."
Victims- The victims of the genocide were Bosniaks, or Bosnian Muslims, and also Croatians.
Serbian president Milosevic attempted to bring back negative memories of the Croats, exhuming mass graves of Serbs that the Ustasas (Croatian Nazi-like movement) had killed. This was used as a sort of proof that Croats were enemies. Radovan Karadzic, president of the illegitimate Bosnian Serb Republic, joined the other two men. His followers, the Bosnian Serbs, saw him as leader but denied their involvement in the genocide.
Perpetrators/Collaborators- The Serbian paramilitary perpetrators committed most of the atrocities. Bosnian Serbs wanted to be part of a dominant Serbian state in the Balkans called the "Greater Serbia."
Victims- The victims of the genocide were Bosniaks, or Bosnian Muslims, and also Croatians.