This is will be a very simplistic answer: When Yugoslavia was still together, it was held together by a strong leader called Tito. Many feel that all the countries were happy while being part of Yugoslavia. When Tito died, nationalists took over Yugoslavia and started to spread hatred among the peoples. Serbians wanted to create Great Serbia, and with Bosnia being a part of it.
No. It's more that the UN did not fulfill its mission to help the Bosnian Bosniaks against the Bosnian Serbs. If you want to read that as indirect help to the Bosnian Serbs, you can, but this was not the intent or purpose of the UN forces, especially those in Srebrenica.
There were lots of Muslims for Bosnian and Christians for Serbs
"who cares" was some guy's answer, but mine is a bit different Serbs VS Croats Serbs VS Muslims Muslims VS Croats for a period Muslims against Muslims for a period And naturally, there were Croats and Serbs in the Muslim army ( Bosnian army) so that makes it Serbs vs Serbs Croats Vs Croats Crazy I know
The Bosnian Genocide refers to either genocide at Srebrenica and Zepa and both of those were perpetrated by Bosnian Serbs in the Army of Republika Srpska led by General Ratko Mladic.
Bosnian Serbs were the aggressors.
Bosnian Serbs were the aggressors.
The 3 main populations in Bosnia are: Bosnian Muslim Bosnian Serbs Bosnian Croats Very generally speaking the Serbs are Orthodox, the Croats are Catholic and the Muslims are Muslim. The langauges these people speak are basically the same (once called 'Serbian-Croatian') but there are differences in spelling and pronunciation. Politically most Bosnian people are happy with the status quo and want to live in peace but there are still many Bosnian Serbs who want to be part of Serbia, many Bosnian Croats who want to be part of Croatia and many Bosnian Muslims who resolutely don't want their country to be divided up.
Ethnic Cleansing
The two main groups were ethnic serbs and ethnic croads
Well, Croatians, Bosnians, Serbs, and international forces. Bosnian Croats declared a "Republic of Herzeg-Bosna" on the south of Bosnia, and wanted to break of from Bosnia. (with support from Croatia) Serbs declraed "Republic of Serbs", 50% of the Bosnian territory, and wanted to do the same like Croats. So Bosnians were fighting on 2 fronts, and then, because of war in Croatia, the Croats finally realized that they were too weak to fight off Serbia alone, so they stopped the attacks on Bosnia, and allied with them, and fought off Serbs out of Croatia and Bosnia.
The 1st President of Republika Srpska, Radovan Karadžić, and General of the Army of Republika Srpska, Ratko Mladić, led a genocidal campaign with other Bosnian Serbs to ethnically cleanse Bosnia of its Bosniak population. (Bosniaks are Bosnian Muslims, in contrast to Bosnian Serbs, who are Bosnian Orthodox Christians.) Both individuals have been convicted of war-crimes by the Hague Tribunals.
The assasination of Archduke Ferdinand by a group of bosnian serbs