What Happened in the Bosnian War?
On 29 February 1992, the multiethnic republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, constituting Catholic Croats, Orthodox Serbs and Muslim Slavs, passed a referendum for independence from Yugoslavia. However, not all Bosnian Serbs agreed with the move, although the rest of the population did, as they were trying to cede from Serbia, alarmed by the Serb leader, Slobodan Milosevic’s attempts to seize control of federal government and his repressive measures in Kosovo. Under the pretence of protecting the Serb minority in Bosnia, Serbian leaders channelled arms and military support to Serbian nationalist minorities in Bosnia. Initially many Bosnians believed that the Yugoslav National Army would protect them, but before long is was clearly evident that the National Army was under the control of Milosevic. On 6 April 1992, the Bosnian Serbs began their siege of Sarajevo, cutting off Muslim, Croat and Serb residents from food, utilities and communications. For three years, the world watched normal pe
