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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.
Bosnian War, ethnically rooted war in Bosnia and Herzegovina that took place from 1992 to 1995. After years of bitter fighting between Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims), Serbs, and Croats as well as the Yugoslav army, a NATO-imposed final cease-fire was negotiated at Dayton, Ohio, U.S., in 1995.
Following the breakup of Yugoslavia, Bosnian Serb forces targeted Bosniak Muslims and Croatian civilians in attacks that killed 100,000 people over three years.
The Bosnian War is one of the most talked about wars in the history of Bosnia and Herzegovanoa. The war led the famous Bosnian Genocide, which had approximately 100,000 people killed. 80% of the people who died in the Genocide were Bosniaks.
Zebic was admitted to the United States from Croatia in 1997 after falsely claiming that he had been the subject of persecution by Serb forces during the Bosnian War. Zebic falsely claimed, among other things, that Serb forces had captured, interrogated, beaten him and forced him to pull wounded soldiers from the front lines.
A US-brokered peace divided Bosnia into two self-governing entities, a Bosnian Serb republic and a Muslim-Croat federation lightly bound by a central government.
The Bosnian War was marked by ethnic cleansing, with thousands of civilians killed and millions displaced. On July 11, 1995, Serbian forces attacked and overwhelmed the city of Srebrenica, a city the U.N. had designated as a safe haven in 1993.
The Srebrenica genocide was the slaying of more than 8,000 Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) men and boys by Bosnian Serb forces in Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, in July 1995. In addition more than 20,000 civilians were expelled from the area.
The Bosnian War was a cruel and catastrophic struggle that lasted from 1992 to 1995 in Bosnia and Herzegovina. To properly appreciate the extent of the war's influence on the area and its people, it is critical to realise the causes of the conflict.
The Bosnian War was Europe's most devastating conflict since World War II. Key points: The Yugoslav army laid siege to the Bosnian capital in April 1992 after it declared independence. Nearly four years of armed conflict ensued with massive casualties on all sides. In 1995 almost 8000 Muslims were systematically raped and killed.