DOI 10.51255/2311–603X_2025_2_203

V. I. Bezruchenko. The Expulsion of the Serbs from Sarajevo in 1992–1995 // Petersburg Historical
Journal, no. 2, 2025, pp. 203–219

Abstract:

The subject of the article is the fate of the Serb community in Sarajevo during the 1992–1995 civil
war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The article is based on documents from the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the archives of the Centre for the Study of War, War Crimes and the Search for Missing Persons in Republika Srpska, as well as documents and materials from the International Independent Commission to Investigate the Plight of Serbs in Sarajevo 1992–1995. The Serb community in Sarajevo, which has existed for centuries, became the target of terror by armed groups and the Democratic Action Party of the President of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, A. Izetbegovic. A. Izetbegovic’s regime carried out the
ethnic cleansing of Sarajevo, as a result of which the pre-war Serb community virtually disappeared.

Key words: Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo, Serbs, Muslims, war crimes, terror, ethnic cleansing, Aliya Izetbegovic.

Author:

Bezruchenko, Viktor Ivanovich — Candidate in Political Sciences, Doctoral student at the
Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Deputy Chairman of the International Independent Commission to Investigate the Suffering of Serbs in Sarajevo in 1992–1995 (Moscow, Russia).
E-mail: victor-bezru4enko@yandex.ru.

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