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Serbia, as a constituent subject of the SFR Yugoslavia and later the FR Yugoslavia, was involved in the Yugoslav Wars, which took place between 1991 and 1999—the war in Slovenia, the Croatian War of Independence, the Bosnian War, and Kosovo.
18 mar 2016 · Serbia ended the conflict beaten, battered and alone. A brief guide to the war in the Balkans 1991 - 1999.
Often described as one of Europe's deadliest armed conflicts since World War II, the Yugoslav Wars were marked by many war crimes, including genocide, crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing, massacres, and mass wartime rape.
27 lis 2023 · As Yugoslavia emerged at the end of World War I (known as the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes until 1929), it struggled to balance competing views of identity in a troubled interwar period that witnessed the failure of nascent democracies.
10 gru 2022 · The air war was focused on military targets and intended to minimize any casualties to Serbia’s civilian population. Strikes were highly successful, and Serbia agreed to a peace deal on June 9 . On June 10, Serbian forces began to leave Kosovo, paving the way for independence.
A cease-fire negotiated in January 1992 gave Serbia nearly a third of Croatia’s territory. Within months, however, civil war broke out once again when Bosnia and Herzegovina seceded from Yugoslavia. The campaign launched by the Serbs against the breakaway republic was driven by ethnic and religious animosities.
22 paź 2024 · October 2000 - The war in the former Yugoslavia was not a civil war as often asserted, but a war of aggression by the Serbian regime in Belgrade, led Slobodan Milosevic, with the aim of creating a "Greater Serbian" state.
