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A Bosniak man mourns the loss of his wife and daughter at a cemetery in Sarajevo, 1993.

Bosnia’s capital city. Serb snipers terrorized the city by shoot- ing down civilians in the streets. There were many casualties, including 3,500 children. The Bosnian Muslims were no match for the Yugoslav army, and the Serbs gradually took control of the region. As each town was captured, they rounded up the local Muslim population and either imprisoned them in concentration camps or, in some cases, massacred them. Women and girls were fre- quently the victims of rape. The plan was to turn Bosnia into a purely Serbian province. The process became known as “ethnic cleansing.”

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Genocide