What really happen between Bosnia and Serb?

Question

can someone please explain to me in brief?

Answer 1

Bosnia is inhabited by three ethnic groups: Bosnian Muslims (~40-45%), Bosnian Serbs (~33-37%), and Bosnian Croats (~14-18%). The numbers are not exactly certain. Bosnian Serbs are Orthodox Christians and Bosnian Croats are Roman Catholics. Conflict broke out in 1992 over control of Bosnia, when Bosnia seceded from Yugoslavia, which was a multiethnic state. Bosnian Muslims wanted a centralized government ruled from Sarajevo by the Muslim leader, Alija Izetbegovic. Bosnian Croats supported them temporarily, to make the secession easier, but later turned on the Muslims and had a war with them in 1993. The Bosnian Serbs, from early 1992, were very opposed to Bosnia seceding from Yugoslavia. If Bosnia was to secede, they wanted to retain their territories in Yugoslavia or at least very loose central control from Sarajevo. There are good historical reasons (WWII and Ottoman occupation, primarily), why Bosnian Serbs did not want to be ruled by Croats and Muslims.

During the war, atrocities were carried out by all parties to the conflict. The tactic was to consolidate majority ethnic territories by expelling "enemy" people, killing some of them, and imprisoning some for ransom and exchange with captured soldiers. Altogether, over 3.5 years, tens of thousands of people died. The most recent statistic holds that 100,000 people died, the majority soldiers but a great number also civilians. Approximately ~1/2 of the victims were Bosnian Muslims, ~1/3 were Bosnian Serbs, and ~1/10 were Bosnian Croats. Ultimately, Bosnia was divided into two roughly equal territories - one inhabited by Serbs and the other by Muslims and Croats (although the Muslim-Croat territory is itself divided between Muslim and Croats areas).

The war did involve Serbia and Croatia, external countries, in that they supported the Bosnian Serbs and Bosnian Croats during the war. However, they did not directly have their armies in Bosnia (Croatia did occasionally), and it was essentially a civil war between the native peoples of Bosnia, fighting over territory and control of the state as a whole.

Answer 2

the Serbs wanted to take over the territory land from Bosnia and while at it kill all Bosnian people as in exterminate them , genocide. sound familiar to you, remember what atrocities Hitler did to the Jews and catholics. well we kinda stood by and let it happen again