It has been 15 years since the United Nations and NATO effectively put an end to the out of control violence during the Bosnian war wherein thousands of people lost their lives and numerous more became the victims of a rampant ethnic cleansing campaign carried out by the Serbs under the command of the General Ratko Mladi? in the area of Srebrenica in Bosnia and Herzegovina. However, even after the implementation of the Dayton Agreement in the year 1995, as per some of the current Serbian officials, the country is still suffering from ethnic cleansing.

This latest revelation coincides with the war crimes tribunal hearings of former Bosnian Serb Leader Radovan Karadzic, who has been charged with eleven counts of war crimes, crimes against genocide during the Bosnian war during 1992-1995. However, as the hearings began, a defiant Karadzic disputed the charges leveled against him and stated that, he was only defending his people against a fundamentalist Muslim agenda. He further took responsibility for the actions of the Serbian personnel, stating that, he was just trying to defend the Serbs against an onslaught brought upon by the Muslim Bosnians.

The current situation in Bosnia is being attributed to the implementation failure of the peace agreements that ended the arms conflict and due to which hundreds and thousands of the affected population that was forced to flee the region has still not been able to return home.

According to Haris Silajdzic (Bosnian Muslim),

“The ethnic cleansing is there because people did not come back to their homes. Hundreds of thousands of them are around the world today and that’s the problem The ethnic divisions continued because people did not go back, were not allowed to go back, to their homes, including Srebrenica, where the genocide took place, and other places, too.”

Via CNN