Question

How did genocide in Bosnia differ from genocide in Rwanda??​

Answer 1

Answer:

In Rwanda the cause of the genocide was “restoration of historical justice,” while in Bosnia it was more of a territorial and interfaith problem.

Explanation:

In the 1994 genocide, 800,000 people were killed in Rwanda. As a result of the three-year conflict in the former Yugoslavia, more than 100 thousand people died, and about two million were forced to leave their homes.

First, German and then Belgian colonists supported the power of the Tutsi. The reason was the origin of the Tutsi: Europeans reasoned that if this tribe used to live in northern Africa, it means that it is genetically closer to the Caucasian race and has superiority over the Hutus. The position of the Hutus was getting worse and more disenfranchised.

Simultaneously with the fall of the Soviet Union, many other communist regimes, including the Yugoslav one, shook. So, by 1991, Slovenia and Croatia withdrew from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. If the first of the republics resolved the issue of independence through a referendum, the second made a unilateral declaration of secession from Yugoslavia. Following the neighbors, Bosnia and Herzegovina decided to become independent, but the population of this republic was so heterogeneous that the proposed option did not suit everyone. The supporters of independent Bosnia and Herzegovina were mostly Bosnian Muslims, who made up almost half of the country's population, as well as Croat Catholics who did not want to follow the Orthodox Serbs, who made up about a third of the republic’s population.