Why was there Genocide in Bosnia - Herzegovina?

Answer 1

"The Serbs wanted to clear the area of all non-Serbs. This is called ethnic cleaning."

.The Bosnian war was a religeous and political civil war between 3 Yugoslav factions,The orthodox Christian Serbs,The Catholic Croats and the Muslim Bosniaks.All three sides committed atrocities but non of them in a collective sense was genocide,that was a largely western neo liberal fabricationEthnic cleansing is another thing which is not to kill the nation you are targeting but to cleanse the area.The number of civilian deaths were with out a doubt largely Bosniak,But the Serbs at 40 percent made up the largest numbr of refugees.

.There were numerous crimes committed by all sides,Examples are:

The Serbs for example killed up to 7000 or 8000 thousand civilians in Srebrenica and had camps like Omarska not to mentions expelling many Bosniaks from cities like Banja Luka and Pale,as a result they are today overwhelmingly Serb. other massacres like Foca and crimes were commited by paramilitary groups.

The Bosniaks drove Serbs and Croats in large numbers e.g 10,000 Serbs driven out of Bihac in a single offensive and up to 1000's killed by Bosniak mujahideen in eastern herzegovina,in villages like Kravica,There were also camps like Konjic,celibici and Heliodom and for Serbs and croats.

The Croats had camps like Dretelj which included largely serbian occupants.Military offensives in Mostar drove many Bosniaks out (and vice Versa).Croatian artillary leveled cities like Mostar,Massacres include the killing of Bosniaks in Lasva and the massacres of Serbs in western Bosnia following croatian raids in towns like Mrkonjic grad.

While there was ethic hatred and such motivated killings on all sides,There was by no means a planned genocide by any faction.The conflict in Bosnia and indeed in the entire Yugoslav region was essentially comparable to other civil wars like in Lebanon.

Answer 2

Political instability and racism caused it.