what caused the war in Bosnia?
That is the question that the rest of this article will address. The secondary roles of other national and international entities will also be mentioned to a lesser extent. The U.S. subverted the sovereignty of Yugoslavia primarily by using economic muscle and arm-twisting and by direct political and military machinations. Meddling by the U.S. in Yugoslavia led to 20,000 to 60,000 deaths in Bosnia,1 hundreds of thousands of wounded, millions of refugees and the other horrors and destruction that war brings. Edicts against Yugoslavia and Bosnia It is not necessary to resort to any conspiracy theory to show why Yugoslavia dissolved like cream in coffee. All that is needed, as a start, is to refer to public statements, especially when discussing the economic pressures that were foisted on Yugoslavia. For two decades prior to1980 Yugoslavia was prospering with its annual GDP growth averaging 6.1 percent. Medical care was free, the literacy rate was about 91 percent and life expectancy was
U.S. intervention was part of the answer and the recent history of Yugoslavia provides the rest of the solution to this enigma. For two decades prior to 1980 Yugoslavia was prospering with an annual GDP growth rate averaging 6.1 percent. Medical care was free, the literacy rate was about 91 percent and life expectancy was 72 years. In 1980 Yugoslavia began to get into debt to international creditors and to repay these obligations it agreed periodically to debt restructuring agreements with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which increased its debt even more. In 1989 Yugoslavia, in order to pay off these loans, launched a program of privatizing or shutting down state industries, cutting back on social programs and subsidies and freezing wages. In 1990 Congress cut off all aid, credits and loans from the U.S. to Yugoslavia. Shortly thereafter the CIA predicted that Yugoslavia would disintegrate into civil war, possibly within the next year. Unemployment at this point was over a mill
