Background Issues

Vietnam and HIV/AIDS
Mali, Migration and Child Labor
Ethnic conflict in Bosnia

Ethnic conflict in Bosnia (continued)
Starting in the 1980s, the communist bloc of Europe began its slow crumble into history. In its place came a rising economic crisis and a resurgence of local nationalism. By 1992, Yugoslavia disintegrated despite efforts to keep the federation together. While most of the partition of Yugoslavia was relatively peaceful, civil war erupted in Bosnia-Herzegovina (later Serbia embarked on a military campaign to regain Kosovo). Bosnian Serbs, with the backing of Serbia, began attacking the Bosniak-led government in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Eventually, Croats were embroiled in the conflict and "ethnic cleansing" ensued between all factions. NATO intervention and the Dayton Peace Process ended the war in 1995.Approximately 100,000 people had died, and most scholars agree that Bosniaks suffered the worst acts of genocide. The massacre at Srebrenica alone resulted in the death of up to 8,000 Bosniak citizens.