Entry-3 Victims

                The main people that were targeted were the Bosnian Muslims and the Croats. The Serbs said that they were attacking them because they were acting out of “fear”. Tons of the men that were captured went to concentration camps to be tortured and shot at. The women didn’t have it any better. They were gang raped thousands of times. “In May of that year, the UN security council declared six besieged Bosnian cities to be “safe areas” for refugees. The cities were Sarajevo, Bihac, Gorazde, Srebrenica, Tuzla, and Zepa. These safe areas were to be protected by UN peacekeeping troops using “all necessary means, including the use of force”” (Ching 33). But it didn’t do much to help. They still lost over 430,000 people. Men were never allowed to be seen in a house. If they were then they were taken away. There are some people today who were lucky enough to escape and are now trying to get law makers to recognize July 11^th 2011 as Bosnian Genocide Remembrance Day. Some of the people that lived through that say that they felt so safe in their neighborhoods and while they were among peers, but then, all of a sudden you can’t trust anyone around you. They want to make sure that people remember what they had to go through. So that when they have kids and grandchildren, they know about the history and all the terrible things that they were forced to live through. Some people remember being bused out to a certain point, then dropped off and forced to walk. Then they would hear sniper shots. This is something that people for generations should remember. If this is something everyone remembers, then they will hear about all the courage and sacrifice their family had or other families had to go through just to survive and be where they are today.