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The Socialist Republic of Serbia became known as the Republic of Serbia in 1990 after the League of Communists of Yugoslavia collapsed, though former Communist politicians would exercise influence for the first ten years, as the ruling Socialist Party of Serbia was directly descended from the League of Communists of Serbia. Serbia appeared to ...
2000 2006 2000–2006 Shebaa Farms conflict. Part of the Israeli–Lebanese conflict. Israel: Hezbollah. Supported by: Syria [7] Iran [7] 2001 2001 2001 insurgency in Macedonia. Part of the Yugoslav Wars Republic of Macedonia. Supported by: Bulgaria Romania Israel Ukraine. National Liberation Army. Supported by: Serbia Greece Russia China India ...
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
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 ...
The director of Radio Television of Serbia during Milošević's era, Dušan Mitević, later admitted, in a PBS documentary, that "the things that happened at state TV, warmongering, things we can admit to now: false information, biased reporting. That went directly from Milošević to the head of TV".
Serbia provided logistical support, money and supplies to the VRS. Bosnian Serbs had made up a substantial part of the JNA officer corps. Milošević relied on the Bosnian Serbs to win the war themselves, but most of the command chain, weaponry, and higher-ranked military personnel, including General Ratko Mladić, were from the JNA. [119]
Serbia is free for almost a year but at a terrible cost; it lost approximately 170,000 men – almost a half of its entire army. 1915: October: A typhus epidemic begins. 150,000 people die in Serbia this year alone. The country's population has already dropped by 10% since the beginning of the war
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 ...