Dehumanization How did this take place? What is a comparison?
The Serbs thought of the the Muslims as the "others" or as if they were subhuman. Because of this, they were not welcomed and they were viewed as enemies that posed as a threat to the country. They were treated very cruelly and killed without hesitation. Serbian soldiers raped beat women and children, while men were sent off to concentration camps. The Serbs treated them inhumanely in a number of other ways, doing things so horrible that it is unimaginable for a human to behave that way. The Bosnian genocide can be compared to the Holocaust in the way that one main group believed they were racially superior and wanted to rid their "community" of any "outsiders" who they saw as enemies. In both events, religious groups were attacked, in the Bosnian genocide, the Muslims, in the Holocaust, the Jews. Another way that the two events are alike is that the victims were forced by their perpetrators to live under cruel conditions where most of them died from disease or starvation.