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In June 2007, the Sarajevo-based Research and Documentation Center published extensive research on the Bosnian war deaths, also called The Bosnian Book of the Dead, a database that initially revealed a minimum of 97,207 names of Bosnia and Herzegovina's citizens confirmed as killed or missing during the 1992–1995 war.
The siege of Sarajevo (Serbo-Croatian: Opsada Sarajeva) was a prolonged blockade of Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, during the ethnically charged Bosnian War. After it was initially besieged by Serbian forces of the Yugoslav People's Army , the city was then besieged by the Army of Republika Srpska .
Bosnian Serb political and military campaign of ethnic cleansing in the Prijedor area, including massacres of civilians during offensives, and killings of prisoners in concentration camps and other detention facilities. 3,176 non-Serb civilians, mostly Bosniaks (but also Croats and others), were killed. [34]
The Banja Luka incident was an air-to-air action that took place over Bosnia on 28 February 1994 when six Republika Srpska Air Force J-21 Jastreb single-seat light attack jets were engaged, and five of them shot down or crashed during escape, by NATO warplanes from the United States Air Force.
Bosnia and Herzegovina [a] (Serbo-Croatian: Bosna i Hercegovina, Босна и Херцеговина), [b] [c] sometimes known as Bosnia-Herzegovina and informally as Bosnia, is a country in Southeast Europe, situated on the Balkan Peninsula. It borders Serbia to the east, Montenegro to the southeast, and Croatia to the north and southwest.
The Bosnian war which lasted from 1992 to 1995 was fought among its three main ethnicities Bosniaks, Croats and Serbs.Whilst the Bosniak plurality had sought a nation state across all ethnic lines, the Croats had created an autonomous community that functioned independently of central Bosnian rule, and the Serbs declared independence for the region's eastern and northern regions relevant to ...
The Intra-Bosnian Muslim War (Serbo-Croatian: Unutarmuslimanski rat) was a civil war fought between the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina loyal to central government of Alija Izetbegović in Sarajevo and the Autonomous Province of Western Bosnia loyal to Fikret Abdić in Velika Kladuša from 1993 to 1995. The war ended in victory ...
Bosnian War (1992–1995) Bosnia and Herzegovina Herzeg-Bosnia Croatia Srpska Serbian Krajina Western Bosnia FR Yugoslavia: Stalemate. Internal partition of Bosnia and Herzegovina according to the Dayton Accords; Over 101,000 dead, mainly Bosniaks; First genocide in Europe since World War II; Deployment of NATO-led forces to oversee the peace ...