Srebrenica

The Srebrenica Genocide

By Genocide Film Library

  • Elections in Yugoslavia

    Elections in Yugoslavia
    Under the pressure of economic crisis and post-Tito nationalist rivalries, the Federation of Yugoslavia starts to disintegrate.
    Fall of the Communist regime in Bosnia; election victory of the nationalists, and the establishment of a nationalist coalition government (SDA-SDS-HDZ)

  • JNA forces concentrate in Bosnia and Herzegovina

    JNA forces concentrate in Bosnia and Herzegovina
    Concentration of JNA forces in Bosnia as the war in Croatia winds down from November 1991, and steps taken by Serbia and the JNA to lay the foundations of a Bosnian Serb army.
    The United Nations Security Council imposes an arms embargo prohibiting the supply of weapons and military equipment to all the republics of Yugoslavia. The Bosniaks of Bosnia and Herzegovina are the most seriously affected by the embargo as the JNA begins to supply the Bosnian Serbs and the Bosnian Croats obtain arms thr

  • Plans for invasion of Drina valley

    Plans for invasion of Drina valley
    Goran Zekić and Miroslav Deronjič, local Bosnian Serb leaders from Srebrenica and Bratunac, are summoned to a meeting in Belgrade with Mihalj Kertes, in charge of undercover operations for the Milosevic regime. They are told by Kertes that the political and state leadership of the SFRY [Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia] has decided "that an area of 50 kilometres from the Drina would be Serb."
    Weapons are shipped into the area from Serbia across the Drina River or flown in by helicopter

  • Karadžić announces genocide

    Karadžić announces genocide
    Radovan Karadzic, President of the nationalist Bosnian Serb Democratic Party (SDS), warns the Bosnia and Herzegovina Assembly that if Bosnia seeks independence, the ‘highway of hell and destruction that Slovenia and Croatia have also taken’ will ‘take Bosnia and Herzegovina to hell and the Muslim (Bosniak) nation possibly to its disappearance’.

    The Assembly nevertheless adopts a Declaration stating that Bosnia and Herzegovina is a “sovereign and indivisible state of equal nations”.

  • Bosnian Serbs leave Parliament

    Bosnian Serbs leave Parliament
    Serb parliamentarians, mostly SDS members, walk out of the Assembly in Sarajevo, marking the end of the tri-ethnic coalition that has governed the country since the elections in 1990. They form their own Assembly of the Serb People of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

  • Creation of Serbian Republic

    Creation of Serbian Republic
    On 9 January the Bosnian Serb Assembly establishes the Serbian Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (which becomes Republika Srpska in August 1992).