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After a period of political and economic crisis in the 1980s, the constituent republics of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia split apart in the early 1990s. . Unresolved issues from the breakup caused a series of inter-ethnic Yugoslav Wars from 1991 to 2001 which primarily affected Bosnia and Herzegovina, neighbouring parts of Croatia and, some years later, K
The breakup of Yugoslavia was a process in which the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was broken up into constituent republics, and over the course of which the Yugoslav wars started. The process generally began with the death of Josip Broz Tito on 4 May 1980 and formally ended when the last two remaining republics ( SR Serbia and SR ...
October 2000. Slobodan Milošević is overthrown, and Vojislav Koštunica becomes new president of Yugoslavia. January - August 2001. Fighting between Albanian militant organization National Liberation Army and Macedonians erupts in Macedonia but ends later on in 2001. June 2001. Conflict in Southern Serbia ends in defeat for Albanians ...
Graph of conflict deaths from 1990 to 2002. The spike of one-sided violence in 1994 is mostly due to the Rwandan genocide. This is a list of wars that began between 1990 and 2002. Other wars can be found in the historical lists of wars and the list of wars extended by diplomatic irregularity.
April 25: Đuro Đaković, a prominent Trade unions' activist in Yugoslavia and the First secretary of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, was murdered by Yugoslav policemen at the Yugoslav-Austrian boundary in the present-day Slovenia, after four days of torturing and questioning in Zagreb police station.
Yugoslav Wars; Part of the breakup of Yugoslavia and the post–Cold War era: Clockwise from top-left: Officers of the Slovenian National Police Force escort captured soldiers of the Yugoslav People's Army back to their unit during the Slovenian War of Independence; a destroyed M-84 tank during the Battle of Vukovar; anti-tank missile installations of the Serbia-controlled Yugoslav People's ...
Borisav Jović was a close ally and advisor of Slobodan Milošević and served as the Serbian member of the collective Presidency of Yugoslavia during the late 1980s and early 1990s. He served as the Vice President of the Yugoslav Presidency from 1989 to 1990 and then as the President of Yugoslavia from 1990 to 1991.
Yugoslavia (/ ˌ j uː ɡ oʊ ˈ s l ɑː v i ə /; lit. ' Land of the South Slavs ') [a] was a country in Southeast and Central Europe that existed from 1918 to 1992. It came into existence following World War I, [b] under the name of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes from the merger of the Kingdom of Serbia with the provisional State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs, and constituted the ...