For our upcoming class I watched a documentary titled “The Defense of Bosnia”. This film showed the start of the war, the atrocities that occurred, and the dedication of the Bosnian people to expel a relentless force driven by hatred. During the collapse of Yugoslavia, Bosnia and Herzegovina had a strong aspiration to create a democratic state. The Serbian leadership attempted to claim the lands of Bosnia and Herzegovina and in the process eliminate and ethnically cleanse the Bosnian Croats and Bosnian Muslims. This war could only be described and viewed as an absolute hell on Earth. The Forces of the Belligerents did everything in their power to destroy and crush the armies and peoples of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Belligerent forces often targeted hospitals, schools, churches, mosques, and in general defenseless people. Constitution camps were created and entire cities were besieged. This war was won by the courage of the Bosnian men and woman who stood up even though every battle that they entered was considered suicidal. The lack of aid by the rest of the world was an absolute atrocity. The army of B and H was so dramatically under armed and outmatched that in every battle one of their primary goals was to not only win, but to not destroy all of their oppositions war materials. They did this because at the outbreak of the war they had little to know heavy military equipment and recovering said war materials. This war saw mass genocide of Muslims and the rest of the world sat back and let it occur for years.
Group 2's U.S. Foreign Relations blog 