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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 March and April 1995 during the last year of the Bosnian War, the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ARBiH) attacked several heights around Mount Stolice – the highest peak within the Majevica mountain range in northeastern Bosnia and Herzegovina – in an attempt to encircle and then capture it from the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) defenders.
In June 1995, the pressure on Vrnograč intensified. On June 21, after weeks of sustained attacks, the 505th Bužim Brigade and 506th Brigade defenders withdrew from the town. National Defence of the APZB and SVK forces pushed southward for another two kilometres before the 5th Corps' defences were solidified.
The Bosnian offensive had been halted to temporarily regroup and reinforce their troops. The Bosnian assault continued on May 27 attacking their previous objectives, a Bosnian Serb unit counterattacked and pushed Bosnian forces several kilometers south. The June cease-fire saw the Bosnian Serbs drive the government gains in Majevica. [8]
The Bosnian offensive on Sarajevo in 1995 (codenamed Operation Tekbir '95) was a military offensive executed by Bosnian Muslim forces against Serb forces in an attempt to break the Siege of Sarajevo during the Bosnian War. The Bosnian Muslim forces were superior in manpower, but not in heavy weapons, key items for Trench Warfare.
Jasmila Žbanić's "Quo Vadis, Aida?" re-creates history in the present tense with a gut-clutching immediacy.
24 September 1995 After the war between Yugoslavia and Croatia ends with the signing of an agreement, Serbia involves itself in Bosnia where a lot is at stake. Here begins the longest and the most tragic part of the conflict. 5 A Safe Area 1 October 1995 As the situation in Bosnia worsens, there is further conflict between the Serb and Bosnian ...
On July 11, 1995, Bosnian Serbs overran a U.N.-protected safe area in Srebrenica. They separated more than 8,000 Bosniak men and boys from their wives, mothers and sisters and slaughtered them.