The Yugoslav Wars were a series of separate but related ethnic conflicts, wars of independence, and insurgencies that took place from 1991 to 2001 in what had been the Socialist Federal Republic of Yu
Clockwise from top left: Officers of the Slovenian National Police Force escort captured soldiers of the Yugoslav People's Army back to their unit during the Slovenian War of Independence; a destroyed M-84 tank during the Battle of Vukovar; anti-tank missile installations of the Serbia-controlled Yugoslav People's Army during the siege of Dubrovnik; reburial of victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre in 2010; an armoured vehicle of the United Nations Protection Force near
Ambushed JNA tanks near Nova Gorica, on the border with Italy
Damage after the bombing of Dubrovnik
A destroyed Serbian house in Sunja, Croatia. Most Serbs fled during Operation Storm in 1995.
Ratko Mladić was a Bosnian Serb military officer who led the Army of Republika Srpska during the Yugoslav Wars. Referred to as the "Butcher of Bosnia", he was found guilty in 2017 of committing war cr
Yugoslav Wars
…control over central Croatia was seized by Croatian Serb forces in conjunction with the JNA Corps from Bosnia and Herzegovina, under the leadership of Ratko Mladić. In January 1992, the Vance Plan established UN controlled (UNPA) zones for Serbs in the territory which was claimed by the Serbian rebels as the…
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia building in the Hague
Mladić in court, May 2012