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A Bosnian Serb T-54 tank passes through the Bosnian village of Modrica in January 1995. Like most genocides, the ethnic cleansing inflicted by Serbs on Bosnian Muslims in the early 1990s required planning and organization.

voted for him, and he won the election. Muhamed was very happy in his new job, and worked hard for the city. Then, the following year, catastrophe struck. Civil war broke out in Yugoslavia, and the country began to fall apart. The province of Bosnia declared its independence from Yugoslavia in 1992. Most of Bosnia’s population was Muslim, although it had a large Serbian minority who wished to remain part of Yugoslavia. Milosevic ordered the national army of Yugoslavia, which was dominated by Serbs, to attack Sarajevo,

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