The Bosnian rift – A perspective from Republika Srpska (2024)

Overview

Ethnic cleansing, village burnings, mass rapes, and killings—the Bosnian War (1992–1995) claimed around 100,000 lives, making it the bloodiest conflict in post-war Europe. «There isn’t a single Serbian village that wasn’t attacked, destroyed, or where civilians weren’t killed,» recalls former police officer Simo Tuševljak. The Dayton Agreement brought an end to the war. But how do those who lived through it view the conflict today? How stable is the peace that was established nearly 30 years ago?