| More then 97,000 Bosnians killed in civil war |
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| Wednesday, 27 June 2007 | |
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About 60 percent of the total number of victims were soldiers and the rest civilians, said the study entitled the Bosnian Book of the Dead, conducted by the Sarajevo-based non-governmental organization Research and Documentation Center. In terms of ethnicity, about 65 percent of victims were Bosnian Muslims, 25 percent Serbs and over 8 percent Croats, said the study, which is financed by the Norwegian government. The Podrinje region reported the highest number of casualties, with 28,666, about 29 percent of the overall death toll of the war, followed by Sarajevo, with 14,011 victims. The War in Bosnia and Herzegovina, commonly known as the Bosnian War, was an international armed conflict that took place between March 1992 and November 1995. The war involved several sides. the conflict was between Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and Bosnia as well as Croatia and Bosnia. Since the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina was a consequence of events in the wider region of former Yugoslavia, and due to the involvement of neighboring countries Croatia and Serbia and Montenegro, there was a long going debate about whether the conflict was a civil war or a war of aggression. The study carried out by Research and Documentation Center classifies war victims by status, ethnic affiliation, gender, age and so on. Twelve years after the signing of the Dayton Peace Accord, the exact number of victims of the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina has still not been determined. During the war, local authorities in Sarajevo publicly stated that about 200,000 people were killed, but estimations vary from 25,000 to 250,000. Research and Documentation Center said that the definitive number of victims might be higher, by 10,000 at the most, as the study is still underway. Share & Bookmark             |
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