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In January 1992, the assembly declared the creation of the Republic of the Serb People of Bosnia and Herzegovina [11] and its secession. [12] The Bosnian government declared the referendum an unconstitutional and self-proclaimed entity and it was recognized only by Yugoslavia. [11]
Following the Slovenian and Croatian secessions from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1991, the multi-ethnic Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina – which was inhabited by mainly Muslim Bosniaks (44%), Orthodox Serbs (32.5%) and Catholic Croats (17%) – passed a referendum for independence on 29 February 1992. Political ...
1991 Bosnian Serb referendum; 1991 Croatian independence referendum; 1991 Kosovan independence referendum; 1991 Macedonian independence referendum; 1991 Sandžak autonomy referendum; 1992 Bosnian independence referendum; 1992 Serbian constitutional referendum; 1992 Serbian early elections referendum; 1998 Serbian foreign mediation in Kosovo ...
Independence referendums results in Yugoslavia between 1990-1992 and the percentage of votes in favor. [ 46 ] [ 47 ] In the 1990 Slovenian independence referendum , held on 23 December 1990, a vast majority of residents voted for independence: [ 48 ] 88.5% of all electors (94.8% of those participating) voted for independence, which was declared ...
These Bosnian Serb assembly members invited the Bosnian Serb population to boycott the referendum held on 29 February and 1 March 1992. The turnout in the referendum was 64-67% and the vote was 98% in favor of independence. Independence was declared on 5 March 1992 by the parliament.
Serbs consider the Sarajevo wedding shooting, when a groom's father was killed on the 2nd day of the Bosnian independence referendum, 1 March 1992, as the first death of the war. [36] The Sijekovac killings of Serbs took place on 26 March and the Bijeljina massacre on 1–2 April. On 5 April, after protesters approached a barricade, a ...
A declaration of sovereignty in October 1991 was followed by a referendum for independence from Yugoslavia in February and March 1992. The referendum was boycotted by the great majority of Bosnian Serbs, so with a voter turnout of 64%, 99% of which voted in favor of the proposal, Bosnia and Herzegovina became a sovereign state. [8]
Parliamentary elections were held in Federal Republic of Yugoslavia on 31 May 1992. [1] The elections were boycotted by almost all opposition parties in protest at both how the electoral law had been passed, and the unequal access to finance and the media given to the governing and opposition parties. [2]