Breakup of Yugoslavia

By Benb120968

  • Main cause

    There was fierce fighting between Bosnian-Muslims, Serbs, and Croats

  • Serbs

    The Serbs massacred thousands of Bosnian-Muslims and engaged in ethnic cleansing.

  • Death of Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito

    A Presidency of 9 members takes power consuming one member from each constituent republic and province, with the ninth place taken by president of the Presidium of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia.

  • 60 writers, poets and public intellectuals in Slovenia sign a petition

    A group of 60 writers, poets and public intellectuals in Slovenia sign a petition demanding the establishing a space of free intellectual debate, which would include the right to political criticism.

  • Region divided into ethic and religious differences

    Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina gained their independence and were admitted into the United Nations.

  • NATO bombs Yugoslavian targets

    NATO began it's air strikes against Yugoslavian targets eventually driving the Serbian forces from Kosovo re-igniting the age of conflict