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Persecution of Bosniaks
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Persecution of Bosniaks refers to the religious, political and ethnic Wikipedia:persecution inflicted upon Bosnian Muslims. Persecution may refer to ethnic cleansing (WP), beating, torture (WP), confiscation or destruction of property, or destruction or desecration of Mosques and other cultural institutions.
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) indicted and sentenced to lengthy prison terms dozens of Serbs for participating in persecution and ethnic cleansing of Bosniaks in Bosnia and Herzegovina (WP) during the 1990s. For example, former Serb leader Radovan Karadžić is now on trial charged for persecution of Bosnian Muslims and genocide (WP) against Bosnian Muslims in eight municipalities of Bosnia and Herzegovina.[1][2]
Although religious and ethnic strife has flared in the Wikipedia:Balkans for centuries, modern persecution of Muslims occurred during the Yugoslav Wars, in which militias from both the Serb and Croat communities, which were largely Christian, carried out attacks on the Bosniak community, which was largely Muslim.[3] Although the conflict was not inherently religious, Islam was a crucial part of Bosniak identity and as a result, many attacks on religious buildings and symbols took place in towns such whilst as FoÄa, Srebrenica, and Banja Luka where all of the town's mosques were destroyed. Many Bosniak-majority towns were renamed to bear Serb names. For example, the Serb authorities renamed FoÄa “Srbinje†(Serbian: Србиње), literally meaning "place of the Serbs" (from Srbi Serbs and -nje which is a Slavic locative suffix). Serb leader Momcilo Krajisnik was sentenced to 20 years in prison for persecution of Bosniaks.[4]
According to charges leveled against Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic, Prijedor was one of eight Bosnia-Herzegovina municipalities where the persecution of non-Serbs reached the scale of genocide. Other municipalities include Bratunac, FoÄa, KljuÄ, Kotor VaroÅ¡, Sanski Most, Vlasenica, Zvornik and Srebrenica.[5]
