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NATO countries intervened in Bosnia to reach a peace agreement, but the global community failed to respond to genocide in Rwanda.
Answer this question… Ethnic cleansing in Bosnia led to a military response from international forces, but ethnic cleansing in Rwanda did not.
The international community, led by NATO, intervened militarily in Bosnia to protect the Bosniak minority (Bosnian Muslims) from Bosnian Serb genocide. The international community made no concrete actions to end the Rwandan genocide and the genocide only ended when a rebel army overthrew the government.
Bosnia
The Bosnian genocide took place in Bosnia.
The genocide in Srebrenica happened in 1995.
Because the US was worried about intervention in Africa after the events of the Battle of Mogadishu. They didn't want to intervene in Rwanda because they believed the country offered nothing to the international community. Bosnia, however, is in Europe and the US is very interested in expanding their influence into Europe.
There is disagreement among lawyers as to which 'parts' of the killings in Bosnia were genocide. There is agreement that the Srebrenica Massacre (about 8,400 killed) was an act of genocide. Beyond that there is disagreement, however.
It's genocide. Bosnia and Rwanda are recent examples.
President Clinton sent military troops to Bosnia because of the terms of NATO. He sent them to help stop the Serbs from committing genocide according to International Law.
it started in 1992
The war in Bosnia left around 400,000 people dead.