Introduction
The beginning of the Bosnian War began at the end of the Second World War, the Balkan states of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia, Slovenia and Macedonia became a part of the Federal’s Peoples Republic of Yugoslavia. After the death of Yugoslavia’s long-time leader Josip Broz Tito in 1980, growing nationalism in the different republics and threatened to split their union apart. This process intensified after the mid-1980s with the rise of the Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic, who helped foment discontent between Serbians in Bosnia and Croatia and their Croatian, Bosniak and Albanian neighbors. In 1991, Macedonia, Slovenia, and Croatia declared their independence; during the war in Croatia that followed the Serb majority Yugoslav National Army supported Serbian Separatists there in their brutal clashes with Croatian Forces.