2. • March 1, 1992 –
December 14, 1995
• Bosnian government held
a referendum for
independence
• Serbs were against
independence
• Croats and Muslims were
fully in favour
• Bosnian Serbs fought
against the Bosnian
Muslims and Croats
3.
Croats and Muslims formed
an alliance to outvote Serbs
War broke out and Serbs
took control of republic
The Bosnian Serbs, under
Radovan Karadzic, lay
siege to Sarajevo
Croats didn’t join the war
until after the siege to
Sarajevo
Croat-Bosniak War began
4.
5.
Conflict breaks out between
Muslims and Croats
Croatian Defence Council (HVO)
and Army of Republic of Bosnia
and Herzegovina had been
fighting side by side
Muslims and Serbs form an
alliance against Croats in
Herzegovina
Much of Mostar is destroyed
including Old Bridge
UN safe havens are created for
Bosnian Muslim civilians in
Sarajevo, Gorazde and
Srebrenica
6.
The first Markale massacre in Sarajevo
occurred
The Washington Agreement was signed
Croat-Bosniak war officially ended on
February 23, 1994
7. Safe haven of Srebrenica was
overrun by Bosnian Serb forces
under General Ratko Mladić
NATO air strikes against Serb
positions which helped Muslim and
Croat forces
The Army of Republika
Srpska (VRS) forces committed
the Tuzla massacre on May 25,
the Srebrenica massacre and the
second Markale massacre on
August 28
The Dayton Peace Agreement was
officially signed December 14, 1995
in Paris
8.
Bosnia is divided into two semi-independent entities
1. Serb-dominated
Republika Srpska
(Serb Republic, or
RS)
2. The Federation of
Bosnia and
Herzegovina
9.
A NATO led Implementation Force (IFOR)
was deployed to Bosnia-Herzegovina
A decentralized political system was created
By the end of 1996, 17 different foreign
governments, 18 UN agencies, 27
intergovernmental organizations, and about
200 nongovernmental organizations (NGOs)
were involved in reconstruction efforts
10.
There are large discrepancies between
estimates of the total number of casualties,
ranging from 25,000 to 329,000
Cherif Bassouni, head of the UN expert
commission investigating war crimes had
originally estimated the death toll to be
around 200,000 in 1994
11.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/1066981.stm
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Bosnia from Falling Apart. Foreign Affairs.
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