s policy has been carried out in Bosnia-Herzegovina from 1992-95, Croatia from 1991-92, and Kosovo in 1999. To further their aim of creating Greater Serbia, Bosnian Serb forces compelled thousands of non-Serbs, Croats, Albanians and Muslims to abandon their homes, allowing Serb families from other parts of former Yugoslavia to occupy them. Wholesale slaughter, deportation, strategic bombing of cities, blockading of cities, and other human rights violations were allegedly used to implement this policy, which created nearly two million refugees. Under the command of Slobodan Milosevic, Serb forces were responsible for the widespread killing of thousands of Bosnian Muslims and Bosnian Croats. This was most apparent in 1995 at Srebrenica where almost all captured Bosnian Muslim men and boys, altogether several thousands, were executed at the places where they had been captured or at sites to which they had been transported for execution. In Croatia, Milosevic took part in a joint criminal enterprise for the forcible removal of the majority of the Croat and other non-Serb population from approximately one third of the territory of Croatia and planned to become part of the new Serb-dominated state through the commission of crimes. In Kosovo, Milosevic bears direct responsibility for crimes that are alleged to include the deportation of 800,000 Kosovo Albanians and the murders of hundreds of ethnic Albanians. In all of these incidents, certain ingredients existed that made contributed to the genocidal domestic policy: ethnic hatred and feelings of superiority of one racial group over another. Ethnic wars differ greatly from most other wars because of its foundation on ethnic superiority and the annihilation or expulsion of people from a certain area. The system of ethnic cleansing imposed in the Balkans had two main goals: to eliminate a group of a certain ethnicity and to destroy their history. In the words of Andras Riedlmyer of Harvard, the...
