Comparing The Holocaust And The Bosnia-Herzegovina Genocide

In the middle of the 20th century the biggest and the most known genocide known as the holocaust took place which had very severe affect on this world. By definition a genocide is a “considered massacre or killing of an enormous group of people particularly those of a specific group or country”. There are several other types of cases of genocides which have took place throughout the history. An other example of a genocide that has occurred is the Bosnian Herzegovina genocide. There are some similarities and some differences in these two totally unlike events.

In both the circumstances of genocides here, they began with war. The holocaust began with the world war 2 and on the other hand the Bosnia- Herzegovina genocide was the result of the Bosnia civil war. It is said that the Holocaust continued for about four years and the civil war which took place in Bosnia lasted for about three years. These events were made possible just after there were some major changes and some problems going on with the politics and the government of the country. It is known that when the Bosnia gained its independence from Yugo Slovakia but after this the armed forces of this country started something which was called the “ethic cleansing” meaning they were against all the Bosnian and Croatian citizens and started to kill these groups of people. In Europe which was mostly under control of Hitler in which all the Jewish people were discriminated and mass murdered for no particular reason, the only reason
but it was just contained in the country and didn’t spread further to a different country to any more fights to begin but in the Nazi Holocaust this wasn’t the same as it spread mostly all over Europe and this is believed to be one the min reasons for the second world war to take place, it also had killed more people than the holocaust in