a few million bosniaks live in the balkans, and about one million other bosniaks live in other parts of the world. ethnic cleansing and genocide during world war ii (1939-1945) and the bosnian war (1993–95) killed many bosniaks and drove others to move away from where they had been living. partially because of this, there has been a bosniak diaspora in a number of countries, including bosnian austrians, germany, bosnian australians, sweden, turkey, canada, and the united states.