yugoslavia was the principal balkan country in which ethnic cleansing took place in the mid-1990s.
the principal balkan country in which ethnic cleansing took place in the mid-1990s was?
yugoslavia
during the bosnian war which lasted from 1992–1995, many civilians fell victim to the ethnic cleansing that was committed by bosnian serbs, bosnian croats, and bosnian muslims. all three ethnic groups sought to create their own ethnically homogenous territories within bosnia and herzegovina and as a result of the conflict, about 2,700,000 people within the country were displaced. the methods which were used during the bosnian ethnic cleansing campaigns included "murder, torture, arbitrary arrest and detention, extra-judicial executions, rape and sexual assaults, the confinement of civilian populations in ghetto areas, the forcible removal, displacement and deportation of civilian populations, deliberate military attacks or threats of attacks on civilians and civilian areas, and the wanton destruction of property". creating the largest flow of internally displaced citizens since world war ii, the ethnic cleansing that occurred in bosnia and herzegovina during the 1990s is still apparent in the ethnically homogeneous regions of bosnian serbs, croats, and muslims that exist in modern day bosnia with politicians attempting to obstruct the undoing of the ethnic cleansing that took place during the war.
ethnic cleansing
bullet::::- in 1947, jammu massacre took place. the event has been described as ethnic cleansing of muslims in the jammu region of jammu and kashmir. the ethnic cleansing took place at the orders of maharaja hari singh. hari singh's army and rashtriya swayamsevak sangh (rss) were the perpetrators of ethnic cleansing. around 70,000 to 300,000 muslims were killed in the ethnic cleansing. the motive of ethnic cleansing was to change demographic of the jammu region which was a muslim majority area. as a result, muslims were reduced to minority in the area with many either killed or fled to pakistan administered kashmir.
list of ethnic cleansing campaigns