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Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity: The Bosnian War (1992-1995)

(Haviv, R. (1992), ‘Bosnia’) “It can take time for even the most shocking images to have an effect, The war in Bosnia had not yet begun when American Ron Haviv took this picture of a Serb kicking a Muslim woman who had been shot by Serb forces… [by the end of the conflict] almost 100,000 people lost their lives. Before his assassination in 2000, Arkan was indicted for crimes against humanity. Haviv’s image was used as evidence against him and other perpetrators of what became known as ethnic cleansing” (Haviv R., 1992 ‘Bosnia’) The image of a shot Muslim woman being kicked in the head is abrasive and horrifying. It shows a very small but important part of the Bosnian conflict and in essence, demonstrates the violation of Human Rights that occurred throughout the dismantlement of Yugoslavia. Not only were the Bosnian Serbs and the war itself in direct violation of the United Nations’ Univers