The NATO bombing Attack marked Recording the second major combat Hostile_encounter operation Military_operation in its history , following the 1995 NATO bombing Attack campaign Military_operation in Bosnia and Herzegovina .

They occurred Coming_to_be at the Markale ( marketplace ) located in the historic core of Sarajevo , the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina .

The latter attack Attack was the alleged reason for NATO air strikes against Bosnian Serb forces that would eventually lead to Causation the Dayton Peace Accords and the end Process_end of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina .

Operation Military_operation Corridor 92 ( , `` Operacija Koridor 92 '' ) was the largest operation conducted Action during the Bosnian War by the Army of Republika Srpska ( VRS ) against the forces Military_operation of the Croatian Defence Council ( HVO ) and the Croatian Army ( HV ) in the Bosanska Posavina region of northern Bosnia and Herzegovina between 24 June and 6 October 1992 .

The Kravica massacre was an attack on the Bosnian Serb village of Kravica by the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( ARBiH ) from the Srebrenica enclave on Orthodox Christmas Day , 7 January 1993 .

The Bosnian War ( Serbo-Croatian : `` Rat u Bosni i Hercegovini '' / Рат у Босни и Херцеговини ) was an international armed conflict Hostile_encounter that took place Process_start in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992 and 1995 .

The main belligerents were the forces of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina and those of the self-proclaimed Bosnian Serb and Bosnian Croat entities within Bosnia and Herzegovina , Republika Srpska and Herzeg-Bosnia , which were led Causation and supplied Supply by Serbia and Croatia , respectively .

The main belligerents were the forces of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina and those of the self-proclaimed Bosnian Serb and Bosnian Croat entities within Bosnia and Herzegovina , Republika Srpska and Herzeg-Bosnia , which were led Causation and supplied Supply by Serbia and Croatia , respectively .

Following the Slovenian and Croatian secessions from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1991 , the multi-ethnic Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina – which was inhabited Come_together by mainly Muslim Bosniaks ( 44 percent ) , as well as Orthodox Serbs ( 32.5 percent ) and Catholic Croats ( 17 percent ) – passed a referendum Request for independence on 29 February 1992 .

Following Bosnia and Herzegovina 's declaration Expressing_publicly of independence ( which gained international recognition ) , the Bosnian Serbs , led by Radovan Karadžić and supported by the Serbian government of Slobodan Milošević and the Yugoslav People 's Army ( JNA ) , mobilised Arranging their forces inside Bosnia and Herzegovina in order to secure Getting ethnic Serb territory , then war soon spread Dispersal across the country , accompanied by ethnic cleansing .

Following Bosnia and Herzegovina 's declaration Expressing_publicly of independence ( which gained international recognition ) , the Bosnian Serbs , led by Radovan Karadžić and supported by the Serbian government of Slobodan Milošević and the Yugoslav People 's Army ( JNA ) , mobilised Arranging their forces inside Bosnia and Herzegovina in order to secure Getting ethnic Serb territory , then war soon spread Dispersal across the country , accompanied by ethnic cleansing .

The conflict Hostile_encounter was initially between the Yugoslav Army units in Bosnia which later transformed Change into the Army of Republika Srpska ( VRS ) on the one side , and the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( ARBiH ) which was largely composed of Bosniaks , and the Croat forces in the Croatian Defence Council ( HVO ) on the other side .

The conflict Hostile_encounter was initially between the Yugoslav Army units in Bosnia which later transformed Change into the Army of Republika Srpska ( VRS ) on the one side , and the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( ARBiH ) which was largely composed of Bosniaks , and the Croat forces in the Croatian Defence Council ( HVO ) on the other side .

The Serbs , although initially militarily superior due to the weapons and resources provided Supply by the JNA , eventually lost Earnings_and_losses momentum as the Bosniaks and Croats allied Collaboration themselves against the Republika Srpska in 1994 with the creation of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina following the Washington agreement .

By early 2008 , the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia had convicted Legal_rulings 45 Serbs , 12 Croats and 4 Bosniaks of war crimes in connection with the war Military_operation in Bosnia .