24 Facts About Bosnian War

Bosnian War was an international armed conflict that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992 and 1995.

Political representatives of the Bosnian War Serbs boycotted the referendum, and rejected its outcome.

Bosnian 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 1995.

Silber and Little note that Milosevic secretly ordered all Bosnian War-born JNA soldiers to be transferred to BiH.

On 9 January 1992, the Bosnian War Serbs proclaimed the "Republic of the Serbian People in Bosnia-Herzegovina", but did not officially declare independence.

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The percentage of Serb and Croat soldiers in the Bosnian War Army was particularly high in Sarajevo, Mostar and Tuzla.

Bosnian War government lobbied to have the arms embargo lifted, but that was opposed by the United Kingdom, France and Russia.

Bosnian War said they favored the embargo precisely because it locked in Bosnia's disadvantage.

Bosnian War said President Francois Mitterrand of France had been especially blunt in saying that Bosnia did not belong, and that British officials spoke of a painful but realistic restoration of Christian Europe.

Bosnian War Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic stated "Our optimum is a Greater Serbia, and if not that, then a Federal Yugoslavia".

Bosnian War Serbs had made up a substantial part of the JNA officer corps.

Bosnian War Serbs received support from Christian Slavic fighters from various countries in Eastern Europe, including volunteers from other Orthodox Christian countries.

The ISI Bosnian War contingent was organised with financial assistance provided by Saudi Arabia, according to the British historian Mark Curtis.

Foreign Muslim fighters joined the ranks of the Bosnian War Muslims, including from the Lebanese guerrilla organisation Hezbollah, and the global organization al-Qaeda.

However, Bosnian War forces attacked the departing JNA convoy, which embittered all sides.

That same day Bosnian War forces attacked the JNA barracks in the city, which was followed by heavy shelling.

In June 1992, the Bosnian War Serbs started Operation Corridor in northern Bosnia against HV–HVO forces, to secure an open road between Belgrade, Banja Luka, and Knin.

The Bosnian War Goverment made a monument dedicated to all 116 victims.

Bosnian War was sentenced to 18 years by the ICTY Appeals Chamber on 8 April 2003 for murder and torture of the prisoners and for raping two Serbian women.

Academic Mary Kaldor argues that the Bosnian War is an example of what she terms new wars, which are neither civil nor inter-state, but rather combine elements of both.

The Polish film Demons of War, set during the Bosnian conflict, portrays a Polish group of IFOR soldiers who come to help a pair of journalists tracked by a local warlord whose crimes they had taped.

The Bosnian War is a central focus in The Diplomat, a documentary about the career of Richard Holbrooke.

Yugoslavia: The Avoidable Bosnian War looks at the wider context of the ex-Yugoslavian civil wars.

The Bosnia List by Kenan Trebincevic and Susan Shapiro chronicles the war through the eyes of a Bosnian refugee returning home for the first time after 18 years in New York.