Manufacturing the "Threat": The Dangerous Parallel Between 1992 Balkan Propaganda and Modern Social Media
The genocide was committed primarily against Bosnian Muslims , who are ethnically known as Bosniaks . The targeted campaign aimed to permanently remove Bosniaks from specific territories to create a contiguous, ethnically homogeneous Serb state. The broader war in Bosnia involved a campaign known as ethnic cleansing . While Bosnian Croats were also targeted and displaced by Bosnian Serb forces in certain areas, the overwhelming majority of the victims of systematic slaughter, concentration camps (such as Omarska and Keraterm), and the longest siege in modern history (the Siege of Sarajevo) were Bosniaks. According to demographic data compiled by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and research institutes, Bosniaks made up over 80% of all civilian casualties during the Bosnian War, despite constituting roughly 44% of the pre-war population. The Target Demographic Ethnic and Religious Identity: While the conflict is often desc...