does anybody know what was war in croatia and bosnia all about?
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There was war in Yugoslavia.  Everyone wanted to separate, because they didn't want to be munipulated by serbians.
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If you mean Ratko Mladic;\nRatko Mladić (Ратко Младић) (born March 12, 1942 in Božinovići, Bosnia-Herzegovina) was the leader of the Army of the Republika Srpska (VRS) (the Bosnian Serb Army) during the 1992-95 war in Bosnia. In 1996 Mladic, along with other Serbian leaders, was accused of war crimes and genocide by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague in connection with the the siege of Sarajevo in which 10,000 people died and the massacre of 8,100 Muslim men and boys on July 11, 1995 during the Srebrenica massacre—Europe's worst atrocity since World War II. There is currently an outstanding international arrest warrant against Mladić following the Rule 61 of ICTY which concluded that there are reasonable grounds for believing that the accused has committed the crimes in question including genocide. US government has since offered a $5 million reward for his and Radovan Karadžić's arrests.\n\nhope it helps
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It all started when archduke Franz Ferdinad was assassinated and two countries went to war....
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http://www.biol.pmf.hr/e-skola/odgovori/odgovor186.htm\n\nhere is really good info on croatian, take a look. don't know if you found it already.
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World War I: 1914-1918\nWorld War II: 1939-1945
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There is more to Bosnia besides the war. Bosnia has an old history and rich traditions. There is much to offer, and people must live for the future now.\nBosnia has beautiful old towns. Stunning scenery. Turkish Mosques. Ivo Andric. Bijelo dugme. Sevdah music. And the best burek hmn!
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It was Clinton politics, the serbs were not following the reforms the US  were directing. The serb were still having a socialist for president, undercutting him was accelarating the old soviet socialist influence in this part of the world..\n\nNato Clinton invented a genocide to intervene in former Yougoslavia..\ndoes anyone knows that this famous genocide victims were about 2000 ? does anyone knows that these 2000 deaths occured after the bombing of Kosovo does anyone knows that these were more likely victim of figthings? \n\n\nDoes anyone knows that nobody ws able to proof any possible contegincy plan to commit atrocities at all ? this was the biggest hoax of all..\n\n\ngenocide? there were never a genocide, there were a massacre but no genocide and even after 13 years of investigation nato and the Court for the former yugoslavia were unable to stick a genocide crime on slobovic. This was a political embarassment for the West especially because Slobovic wasnt an expanstionist but had agreed and signed for the independence of these people..\n-------------------------------\n\nHey magic Gather upthere ? thank you you just described the republican party..
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Bosnian Serbs are Orthodox Christian and Bosnian Muslims are obviously Muslim. \n\nThe fighting started after the break-up of Yugoslavia, a multicultural country created after World War I by the victorious Western Allies.\n\nIn June 1991, Slovenia and Croatia both declared their independence from Yugoslavia soon resulting in civil war. \n\nFighting continued until 1995 when a peace accord was declared and Bosnia was partitioned into two portions known as the Bosnian Serb Republic and the Muslim-Croat Federation.
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which world war? there was two. if it was world war I then ok; world war 1 started on 1914, ended in 1918. June 28, 1914, reason why? Archduke Franz Ferdinand (of Austria) was assassinated by a team of \nSerbian nationalists while he was in Sarajevo to assert\nAustrian imperial authority over Bosnia, a Slavic territory.\n\nThis assassination triggered the cascade of events that quickly produced war world 1, which were fought by; 2 sides \n\nThe Allied Powers\n-\n led by the United Kingdom, France and until 1917 Russia , and, after 1917, the United States entered war.\n\nthe Central Powers (this side lost) \n-\nled by the German Empire,Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire (aka turkey dinasty.) \nThis is how it went;\nArchduke Franz Ferdinand was assesinated by a group of serbian nationalist while trying to assert austrias control of bosnia.\nAustria extremely mad about this, backed by Berlin, attacked Serbia on July 29 in retaliation, and Germany (a big austrian backer at that time, which secretly wanted a bigger presence in europe) invaded Belgium on August 3. Thus, the war commenced; also Germany and Austria-Hungary are seen as the initial aggressors, and thus, responsible for the outbreak of war world 1. Germany was assigned the guilt although, it was humiliated in 1920 by The War Guilt clause, or Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles/Treaty of Trianon, (proclaimed as the initial AGGRESORS) and required to pay war reparations and all future costs, such as pensions for all the Allied veterans. these payments were stopped however by hitler in 1933, the same year he became chancellor (not fuhrer yet). this war ended in 1918 shortly after the U.S joined-in, in 1917, and the Allied powers defeated the central.\n-\nnow world war II;\ntook place between 1939 and 1945. it IS to this day the biggest, largest and deadliest war ever seen.\nJapan had been fighting china for many years, but the "world" war is said to have begun on September 1, 1939 when as you know Germany with the soviet union (through a secret war pact before the war.) invaded Poland.  two days later france and britain declared war on germany. The "allies" (Poland, British Commonwealth, France) left battles strictly in poland untill May, 1940 Germany invaded Western Europe, taking on the British and French militaries. Six weeks later, france surrendered to germa. \n3months later, Germ, Italy,& Jap signed a mutual defense agreement, Tripartite Pact, and were known as the Axis Powers. soviet union got into the war, when germany double-crossed them and invaded soviet land. forcing unwillingly the soviets to the allied camp. In December 1941, Japan attacked the United States (pearl harbor) bringing it too into the war on the Allied side. japan was on axis powers side (nazi side) after these events china instantly joined the allied side, as most of the rest of the world after  1940\nin 1942 Britain, USA, USSR, were fighting Germany and Italy; and all allies (except USSR) were fighting Japan. From then through August 1945, battles raged across all of Europe, in the North Atlantic Ocean, across North Africa, throughout Southeast Asia, throughout China, across the Pacific Ocean and, by air, in Japan.\nItaly surrendered in September 1943, Germany in May 1945. The surrender of Japan marked the end of the war, on September 2, 1945.\nHitler killed himself, along with his wife Eva braun (who he married few days before) and his 2 dogs on April 30, 1945 in a underground bunker there bodies were incinerated by servants by request; because of hitlers fear that what happend to mussolini (hanged by his toes) they would also do to his corpse.\nnote an estimated 60 million people died in this war estimates vary; About 64% of all casualties were civilians.\n3 million of them were polish jews, and 2 million polish "gentiles"
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The First World War, or (before 1939) the Great War, was a world conflict lasting from August 1914 to the final Armistice on November 11, 1918. The Allied Powers (led by the United Kingdom, France and until 1917 Russia , and, after 1917, the United States) defeated the Central Powers (led by the German Empire, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire). \n\nThe Allies won.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_war_I
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the only thing I know about it is 10 or 15 years ago was a lot of killing between sectarian war. (holocaust or massacre)
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There has been 30 years of increased tension between these old enemies since Turkey invaded the island of Cyprus and occupied the Northern half (majority Turkish Cypriots) and evicted the Greek Cypriots to live in the Southern half.\n\nThere are also other disputed islands and patches of seawater!\n\nDespite the fact that a Greek and a Turkish F16 collided with each other whilst "dogfighting" and playing war over some disputed airspace last week and the Greek pilot was killed, both sides have played the incident down.\n\nThe reason is that Turkey is trying to join the European Union and therefore everyone is behaving themselves.\n\nTen years ago it would have been the pretext for war.
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First World War \nSecond World War \nKorean War \nSoutheast Asian Conflicts \nPeacekeeping and Post–Cold War Operations
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Bosnia Herzegovina was one of the states of former Yugoslavia. The majority of the population is Muslim. The capital is Sarajevo.\n\nThe state (now country) was the subject of much war and ethnic cleansing in the '90s when the Christian Serbs attacked and raped and pillaged the Muslim Bosnians.\n\nThe United Nations stepped in..
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World War I \n1914—18, also known as the Great War, conflict, chiefly in Europe, among most of the great Western powers. It was the largest war the world had yet seen. \nProminent causes were the imperialistic, territorial, and economic rivalries that had been intensifying from the late 19th cent., particularly among Germany, France, Great Britain, Russia, and Austria-Hungary.\n\nWorld War II \n1939—45, worldwide conflict involving every major power in the world. The two sides were generally known as the Allies and the Axis. \nThis second global conflict resulted from the rise of totalitarian, militaristic regimes in Germany, Italy, and Japan, a phenomenon stemming in part from the Great Depression that swept over the world in the early 1930s and from the conditions created by the peace settlements (1919—20) following World War 1.
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I can tell you it went from 1914-1918, not the years you said.\n\nHere's a big article all about it.  Next time go to Wikipedia.org before you come to Yahoo Answers.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I\n\nAt the time, world politics was dominated by five or six Great Powers, each of them a country in Europe with colonial possessions in other parts of the world.  They each went behind each other's backs a lot to make alliances, promising to join in if their ally was attacked.  It was a very unstable situation, because a squabble over something minor could suddenly spiral into a giant worldwide confrontation as each side called in more and more allies.  This is exactly what happened.  The event that triggered it all was the assasination of the man next in line for the Austrian throne; he was shot by a Serbian who thought Serbia should be its own country and not part of the Austrian empire.  Serbia is in the Balkans, the same area as the territory covered by the former Yugoslavia, and that's why others have said "the Balkans was a powder keg."\n\nOnce all the alliances had kicked in, both sides discovered that their new war technologies were good for killing a lot of people but not good for gaining territory or gaining a decisive advantage over your opponent. Much of the war was a long bloody stalemate.\n\nThere's obviously a lot more, but you'll have to get it from the Wikipedia article.