Bosanski Novi, the town itself was first mentioned in 1280, part of Bosnia and Herzegowina from medieval times, after 1992 and still occupied by Bosnian Serbs. From 1992 to 1995, Slobodan Milosevic president of Serbia and the leader of the Bosnian Serbs, Radovan Karadzic, led an ethnic-cleansing war by terrorizing and forcibly displacing all non-Serbs in Bosnia. Bosniacs suffered gravely during the 4-year long war. More than 200,000 people, out of a population of 4.4 million, were killed. Another 200,000 were injured, 50,000 of them children.

Millions of people were deported or forced to flee their homes. An estimated 20,000 to 50,000 Bosnian Muslim women were raped by Bosnian Serb soldiers in a systematic campaign of psychological terror. Serbian soldiers and paramilitary groups systematically perpetrated mass rape, forced impregnation, forced prostitution and sexual slavery on all non-Serb women with the aim of ethnic cleansing. Women were sometimes raped publicly when soldiers would enter a village, as well as in the privacy of their own apartments and houses. There were more than 16 rape/concentration camps that were organized by the Serbian military during the war. Women were kept in a camp for a minimum of 21 days, though many were held for longer periods. If a woman became pregnant in the camp, she would be held until the late stages of pregnancy, then forced to leave with no provisions or a place to return. Other women were released as part of a prisoner exchange. During the imprisonment period, women suffered mass rape on a daily basis; they had to cook and clean for the soldiers; and at times they were forced to do so naked. Rape served as a horrifying means of humiliation, not only for women but also for a whole population.

The war in Bosnia and Herzegovina devastated the economy. Sixty percent of all houses in Bosnia and Herzegovina, half of the schools, and a third of the hospitals were damaged or destroyed. During the conflict, 70 percent of farm equipment and 60 percent of livestock were destroyed. Large tracts of farmland have been deserted because of landmines, and approximately 50 percent of the country’s housing is no longer habitable. After the war, there were few job opportunities available, especially for war-affected groups, such as widows and demobilized soldiers. Corruption and the vestiges of state socialism have also deterred the economic recovery.

Because of high unemployment rates, prostitution and trafficking of Bosnian women has also expanded greatly since the war ended many Bosnian women are easy targets for human traffickers who promise them job opportunities in the West, but instead force them into prostitution. Traffickers are often the same warlords and paramilitaries from the war who have turned to organized crime in the post-war turmoil. Women are taken from their homes, abused and forced to become prostitutes and slaves for local and foreign soldiers with the NATO-led peacekeeping forces. In April 2002, the United Nations Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina recorded more than 1,300 female prostitutes in the country.

Biggest problem in Bosnia is Dayton agreement, the agreement braugth Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina but no't a justice. Bosanski Novi is undar the fist of Dodiks SNSD and othar radikal Serbian party which continue with humiliation of non-Serbs. Fifteen years after 80% of Bosniaks from Bosanski Novi are still rapleced thru Europe, Amerika, Australia, 20% which return back are starving from hungar and depanding from help of they relatives in foreign countries.