The Bosnian War? What was it all about?

Answer 1

What Kik says is correct. Yugoslavia was and artificial country created after World War II and held together by Tito (a Croation Catholic). During this time there was intermarriage between Muslims and Christians and the communities lived alongside each other. After Tito's death, Serbia thought they could continue his role but began to suppress the Muslim community. Yugoslavia began to fall apart into it's original ethnic, linguistic and religious divisions.
It's not over, since there is as yet no satisfactory solution for Kosovo. Most Kosovars are Muslim, they live in peace with Catholics, but will not accept Christians who are Orthodox because they are the Serbs.

Answer 2

The real tension from the conflict came as a result of the coutry of Yugoslavia being artificially created after WW1 by the people who held the power in Europe. It was an attempt to reinstate order and control. Artificially putting people together into one country resulted in a great deal of hostility and conflict as the power was not distributed equally and some of the smaller countried were subjugated to the rule of their neighbour who was a different religion and culture.

Answer 3

We are talking about an "ancient age".

During perestroika, political process where URSS start to open its borders and change their political view, all satellite countries started to be by their own.

Each region has or one unicity regarding its origins or when they are full of discrepancies, many different ethnical groups, they need a Leader, a glue to keep then together.

Their stabilisation started when Tito, their leader died. He had enough strength and was respected by all sides and that area had no problem to keep control as one only country. After his death, things went wild. several small, regional leaders, based on religious argues started to dispute territories and things, like happens in Africa when there is no support to a government, went really bad.

I was about:
1. No previous plan to support transition neither prepare substitute. No intervention from international observers before war stars.
2. Territory, control and power. As usual, everybody blames religion, but it was just an excuse and manipulation tool (like always)
3. European intervention to keep control before things goes worst and another middleast-like is created within European borders.
4. As usual to western politicians: Lack of vision. While URSS were being dismantled, each region should prepare theirselves to the new status.

Answer 4

Well, you can't really isolate the war in bosnia from the war in croatia. I recommend Misha Glenny's book "The fall of Yugoslavia", excellent analysis that does not follow the usual oversimplifications ( you know, all Serbs are monsters and all Croats and Muslims are innocent victims)

Answer 5

The former nation of Yugoslavia (which was comprised of the states of Serbia, Bosnia and Croatia) wanted to break away from each other but the Serbians weren't having any of that. Serbia had 90% of the military might of the nation and to punish Bosnia and Croatia they killed them and bombed them while the Western powers sat back and did mostly nothing.

Answer 6

The War in Bosnia and Herzegovina, commonly known as the Bosnian War, was an international armed conflict that took place between March 1992 and November 1995. The war involved several sides. According to ICJ judgement, Serbia gave military and financial support to Serb forces which consisted of Yugoslav People's Army (later Army of Serbia and Montenegro), Army of Republika Srpska, Serbian Ministry of the Interior, Ministry of the Interior of Republika Srpska and Serb Territorial Defence Forces. Croatia gave military support to Croat forces of Herzeg-Bosnia. Bosnian government forces were led by Army of Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. (see Part VI (2) - Entities involved in the events 235-241) These factions changed their objectives and allegiances several times at various stages of the war (see Parties Involved).

Since the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina was a consequence of events in the wider region of former Yugoslavia, and due to the involvement of neighboring countries Croatia and Serbia and Montenegro, there was a long going debate about whether the conflict was a civil war or a war of aggression. Most Bosniaks and many Croats claimed that the war was a war of aggression from Serbia, while Serbs mostly considered it a civil war. There was a trial before the International Court of Justice, following a suit by Bosnia and Herzegovina against the Serbia and Montenegro for genocide (see Bosnian genocide case at the International Court of Justice) from 1993. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) rulling of 26 February 2007 effectively determined the character of war to be international, but that Serbia was not directly responsible of genocide that was committed by Serb forces of Republika Srpska. The ICJ concluded however that Serbia failed to prevent genocide committed by Serb forces and failed to punish those who carried out the genocide, especially general Ratko Mladić. Despite the evidence of widespread killings, siege of Sarajevo, mass rapes, ethnic cleansing and torture conducted by different Serb forces which also included JNA (VJ), elsewhere in Bosnia, especially in Prijedor, Banja Luka and Foča camps and detention centers, the judges ruled that the criteria for genocide were met only in Srebrenica or Eastern Bosnia.[1] The Court further decided that, following Montenegro's declaration of independence in May 2006, Serbia was the only Respondent party in the case, but that "any responsibility for past events involved at the relevant time the composite State of Serbia and Montenegro".[2]

The involvement of NATO, during the 1995 Operation Deliberate Force against the positions of the Army of Republika Srpska made the war an internationalized conflict, but only in its final stages.

The war was brought to an end after the signing of the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina in Paris on 14 December 1995.[3] The peace negotiations were held in Dayton, Ohio, and were finalized on 21 December 1995. The accords are known as the Dayton Agreement.

While the wartime propaganda figures varied widely to reflect current political interests of involved parties, the most recent research places the number of victims at around 100,000–110,000 killed (civilians and military), and 1.8 million displaced (see Casualties).[4][5][6]



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnian_War

Answer 7

Read, my war, I miss it so.

Answer 8

catholics, muslims, and eastern orthodox, hate each other
usually about ethnic cleansing

Answer 9

Shoot you're nexdoor nabour. You didn't like him anyway!