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The Bosnian War [a] (Serbo-Croatian: Rat u Bosni i Hercegovini / Рат у Босни и Херцеговини) was an international armed conflict that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992 and 1995. The war is commonly seen as having started on 6 April 1992, following several earlier violent incidents.
In the 1990 elections, Social Democrats won control of the Tuzla municipality, making it the only municipality in Bosnia where the nationalist SDA were not in power. Despite this, the then Mayor of Tuzla declared support for the newly formed Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. A war cabinet was set up in the city and a multi-ethnic police and ...
The Croat–Bosniak War or Croat–Muslim War was a conflict between the Bosniak-dominated Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia, supported by Croatia, that lasted from 18 October 1992 to 23 February 1994. [6] It is often referred to as a "war within a war" because it was part of the larger Bosnian War.
The fighting occurred at the Vrbanja Bridge crossing of the Miljacka river in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, during the Bosnian War. The VRS seized the French-manned United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR) observation posts on both ends of the bridge, taking hostage 12 French peacekeepers.
During the Bosnian War spring of 1994, the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ARBiH) had attempted to capture the radio and television transmitters on both Mount Vlašić in central Bosnia and Herzegovina near the town of Travnik, and Mount Stolice, the highest peak in the Majevica mountains in northeastern Bosnia, located east of the city of Tuzla.
On 18 December 1992, the U.N. General Assembly resolution 47/121 in its preamble deemed ethnic cleansing to be a form of genocide stating: [23] [24]. Gravely concerned about the deterioration of the situation in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina owing to intensified aggressive acts by the Serbian and Montenegrin forces to acquire more territories by force, characterized by a consistent ...
The town of Višegrad in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina was seized by Bosnian Serb forces in April 1992 during the first days of the Bosnian War.Bosnian Serb members of the local Territorial Defence (TO), supported by local Bosnian Serb police and some members of the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA), quickly overcame heavily overmatched local Bosnian Muslim police and reserve police elements ...
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