With the exception of the collapse of the USSR what other reasons were there for the civil war in Bosnia?

Question

OTHER reasons besides the creation and collapse of the Soviet Union only please.

Answer 1

Absolutely nothing to do with the collapse of the USSR.
Bosnia was part of Yugoslavia created out of several states after WW1 which had been part of the Ottoman and Austro/Hungarian Empires.
After WW2 Yugoslavia had a communist regime outside the influence of the USSR. Its leader was Marshall Tito. On his death the country eventually broke up as the ethnic and religious differences were exploited by politicians seeking to fill the place of Tito.
The situation eventually divided along religious lines with Serbs (Orthodox) , Croatians (Catholic) and Bosnians (Muslim) opposed to each other.

Answer 2

The collapse of USSR gave ground for NATO to act upon own interests in the region. Their ultimate goal is Russia anyway.

More reasons:

a) NATO control of the region

b) Elimination of Serbia as local threat. Have in mind that Germany and Serbia have not been in good relationship since WW1... Germany was the most involved country in the issue against Serbs.

c) Formation of a Muslim country, with the involvement of Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the hands of USA. This was a political compensation of USA for its Middle Eastern involvement...

d) Ethnic tensions? These tensions were not the direct cause of the war. In fact, there wouldn't have been the 120,000 casualties in Bosnia if Izetbegovic hadn't changed his mind over the Jose Cutileiro's peace agreement which would have given the country some kind of confederation, after the consultation with US ambassador Zimmerman (and the above reasons)... The Muslims wanted the whole country under their control, while the Serbs of Bosnia wanted to remain joined with Serbs of Serbia...
http://www.deltax.net/bissett/western/bosnia.htm

Answer 3

the collapse of the USSR had very little to do with the civil war in Bosnia.

the collapse of Yugoslavia did.
the main reason was that the Serbs (just one to two generations before) were subjected to genocide at the hands of Bosnian Muslims and Croats.

thus, they were, understandably, afraid to live as a minority in the newly proclaimed independent Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Answer 4

It's the mixture of cultures, Religion and ethnics. For 450 years they were either occupied or forced to live with one another. When they weren't occupied anymore, it was beyond a simple peaceful parting of ways. Mostly Religious. Mostly the same old tricks Christians resort to. (200,000 Muslims were killed by Christians)

Their past 450 years:

Ottoman Empire occupation
Austria- Hungary occupation
Post ww1 winners set up Yugoslavia
German occupation
Soviet Occupation

Keep in mind that oppressed under these occupations had times when they could hate each other or turn each other in, etc.

It is the same sort of thing that Iraq is going through. Except Iraq hasn't had a chance when they aren't occupied yet.

Answer 5

financial cave in, that would set off civil conflict or could tempt some punk united states of america with nukes to objective us at conflict at the same time as we are working around demonstrating like the socialists in Greece because of the fact there is not greater wealthy individuals to tax, for this reason not additional funds to pay all the entitlements.

Answer 6

1) mixture of ethnicities and religions
2) Collapse of Yugoslavia

Answer 7

very old smoldering ethnic wounds, when the Soviets had no control, the people went back to what they had been doing previous, kind of like hunting dogs in a cage, when they got no raccoons or rabbits to chase, they turn vicious on each other.

Answer 8

Serb vs Muslim

Answer 9

~The folks living there just didn't like each other much.