These included Cause_to_be_included the communist-led Yugoslav Partisans and Serb nationalist Chetniks .

Differentiating between the rank and file of the two insurgent factions was difficult , as even the communist-led insurgent groups consisted mainly of Serb peasants who had little understanding of the political aims of their leaders .

Operation Trio coincided with and contributed Giving to the polarisation of the almost exclusively Serb rebels in eastern Bosnia into two groups : the Serb-chauvinist Chetniks and the multi-ethnic and communist-led Partisans .

Encouraged Influence by Chetnik propaganda against Croats and Bosnian Muslims and repelled Defending by the sectarian left-wing policies and actions of the communists , many Serb peasant fighters were swayed Convincing to the Chetnik cause .

All the victims were local Croats , save one Serb , who had tried to protect his neighbours .

The HV secured Assistance Voćin on the night of 14/15 December , the Serb population having left Departing the previous night .

In 2015 , the International Court of Justice ruled Legal_rulings that the massacre in Voćin was not an example of genocide , and stated Statement that Croatia has not produced Manufacturing sufficient evidence to substantiate its claim that Croats were killed Killing by Serb forces in that locality in December 1991 .

The Partisans then counter-attacked Attack decisively , but by early December had been driven Motion from liberated area by the German and Serb collaborationist offensive .

They tried to fight Defending off an attack Attack by the Croatian Serb SAO Eastern Slavonia , Baranja and Western Syrmia ( SAO SBWS ) Territorial Defence Forces , supported Supporting by the Yugoslav People 's Army ( `` Jugoslovenska Narodna Armija '' – JNA ) and the Serb Volunteer Guard paramilitaries .

They tried to fight Defending off an attack Attack by the Croatian Serb SAO Eastern Slavonia , Baranja and Western Syrmia ( SAO SBWS ) Territorial Defence Forces , supported Supporting by the Yugoslav People 's Army ( `` Jugoslovenska Narodna Armija '' – JNA ) and the Serb Volunteer Guard paramilitaries .

The offensive achieved Achieve its objectives , and significantly contributed Cause_to_make_progress , along with Operations Sana and Maestral 2 to forcing the Bosnian Serb leadership to serious peace negotiations .

The Saborsko massacre Killing ( , ) was the killing Killing of 29 Croat residents of the village of Saborsko on 12 November 1991 , following the seizure of the village in a Yugoslav People 's Army ( `` Jugoslovenska Narodna Armija '' – JNA ) and Croatian Serb offensive during the Croatian War of Independence .

The fall Motion_directional of the town occurred Coming_to_be as part of a JNA and Croatian Serb operation to capture Conquering a Croatian-held pocket centered on the town of Slunj , southeast of Karlovac .

The offensive was a Croatian pre-emptive strike against the VRS , a Bosnian Serb military formed Coming_to_be in May 1992 from Yugoslav People 's Army ( JNA ) units that were stationed Placing in Bosnia and Herzegovina .

The offensive marked Recording the first significant Bosnian Serb defeat in the war and placed Placing the HV in a favourable position to push back the VRS and remnants of the JNA holding positions north and east of Dubrovnik .

The fighting Hostile_encounter improved Cause_to_make_progress the safety of VRS lines of communication south of the Bosnian Serb capital of Banja Luka , and displaced between 30,000 and 40,000 people , in what foreign observers called Name_conferral `` the largest and most wretched single exodus '' of the Bosnian War Hostile_encounter .

The three HV offensives launched Process_start in Western Slavonia in late-1991 led to Causation the displacement of approximately 20,000 Croatian Serb refugees who were later settled Resolve_problem in the JNA-held Baranja region in eastern Croatia .

The Croatian offensive temporarily succeeded in expelling Removing rebel Serb forces from the pocket after several days of fighting Hostile_encounter .

However , the operation ended Process_end in controversy due Causation to the skirmish with United Nations peacekeepers and accusations Judgment_communication of serious Croatian war crimes Committing_crime against local Serb civilians .

The Vukovar massacre , also known as the Vukovar hospital massacre or the Ovčara massacre , was the killing Killing of Croatian prisoners of war and civilians by Serb paramilitaries , to whom they had been turned Becoming over by the Yugoslav People 's Army ( JNA ) , at the Ovčara farm southeast of Vukovar on 20 November 1991 , during the Croatian War of Independence .

Once at the farm , the prisoners were beaten Bodily_harm for several hours before the JNA pulled Motion its troops from the site , leaving Departing the prisoners in the custody of the Croatian Serb TO and Serbian paramilitaries .

Several former members of the Croatian Serb TO and Serbian paramilitary units have been tried by the Serbian judiciary and convicted Legal_rulings for their involvement in the massacre .

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 .

The outcome later caused Causation speculation that it was the result of a political arrangement between Serb and Croatian leaders to secure Getting a land trade , though a Central Intelligence Agency analysis rejected Response such allegations Statement .

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 .

During the Bosnian War , the Srebrenica enclave was besieged Besieging by the Serb forces who rarely allowed Preventing_or_letting humanitarian aid to enter Arriving the area , creating hunger and lack of medicine among the Srebrenica inhabitants .

49 people died Death in the attack on the Serb side : 35 VRS soldiers and 11 civilians .

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 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 Bosnian War Military_operation was characterised by bitter fighting , indiscriminate shelling of cities and towns , ethnic cleansing and systematic mass rape , mainly perpetrated Committing_crime by Serb , and to a lesser extent , Croat and Bosniak forces .

The Podujevo bus bombing was an attack on a bus carrying Serb civilians near the town of Podujevo in Kosovo on 16 February 2001 .

The bombing Attack killed Killing twelve Serb civilians who were travelling Traveling to Gračanica and injured Bodily_harm dozens more .