Ethnic cleansing

The Bosnian War introduced the term ethnic cleansing into common political vocabulary. Bosnian Serb forces systematically forced Bosniaks and Croats out of territories they wanted to claim for a Greater Serbia. Methods included mass killings, mass rape, forced deportation, destruction of homes and religious sites, and detention in concentration camps. The Omarska, Trnopolje, and Keraterm camps held Bosniak prisoners under brutal conditions; photographs of emaciated prisoners shocked global audiences in 1992 with their resemblance to images from Nazi camps.