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When the Bosnian War broke out in April 1992, there were four types of federal and Serb armed forces in Bosnia and Herzegovina.These were; the Yugoslav people's Army (JNA), volunteer units raised by the JNA, Bosnian Serb Territorial Defense (TO) detachments, and Bosnian Serb Ministry of Internal Affairs Police (MUP). [5]
Operation Bosanska Krajina was the code name of the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) offensive during the Bosnian War which aimed to capture the municipalities of Prijedor, Sanski Most and Ključ. [1] The offensive was also the response of the VRS to the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ARBiH) attack on the city of Prijedor. [2]
Operation Deliberate Force was a sustained air campaign conducted by NATO, in concert with the UNPROFOR ground operations, to undermine the military capability of the Army of Republika Srpska, which had threatened and attacked UN-designated "safe areas" in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Bosnian War with the Srebrenica genocide and Markale massacres, precipitating the intervention.
Tensions rose in the first days of March, when results of the 1992 Bosnian independence referendum were announced, although they did not lead to actual violence. In Višegrad, as in a number of other communities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the ethnic composition of the police force was a source of open dispute in the run-up to the Bosnian War.
The war was brought to an end by the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina, negotiated at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio between 1 and 21 November 1995 and signed in Paris on 14 December.
At the end of the battle for Višegrad, an incident happened. Murat Šabanović made a desperate attempt to stop the Serbian attack by seizing a hydroelectric plant near the city and saying he was going to blow himself up. In that case, Višegrad and its surroundings would be flooded. After talking with him and persuading, the Serbs took over ...
BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Serbia will ignore U.S. sanctions recently imposed on top Bosnian Serb officials for undermining a 1995 peace agreement that ended a war that left more than ...
This re-organisation followed the declaration of the Serbian Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina on 9 January 1992, ahead of the referendum on the independence of Bosnia and Herzegovina that took place between 29 February and 1 March 1992. This declaration would later be cited by the Bosnian Serbs as a pretext for the Bosnian War. [1]