The wars of Yugoslavia were a series of conflicts violent one in the territories of old the socialist Federal republic of Yugoslavia between 1991 and 2001. Two series of wars followed one another affecting the six republics of late the socialist Federal republic of Yugoslavia. One also speaks about `' War in Balkans'', `' War of ex-Yugoslavia'', or more rarely of `' Third Balkan war''

This war opposed various ethnicities or nations of ex-Yugoslavia. Its causes are political, economic, cultural, and ethnic.

The wars were most fatal in Europe since the end of the Second world war. It is estimated that the assessment is changed to 300.000 dead and approximately 1.000.000 displaced persons. It was also the first conflict in genocidary matter in Europe since the end of the Second world war. Many the principal characters - keys implied were or are continued for War crimes.

Conflicts in the west

• War as Slovenia (1991) Known under the name of Ten Day old war.
• War in Croatia (1991-1995)
• War in Bosnia (1992-1995)

The wars in Slovenia and Croatia were led to the beginning in order to preserve the Yugoslav unit, but they took a nationalist character quickly. The visions of the Serb nationalist being opposed to those of the Croatian Nationalism personified by the president Slobodan Milošević in Serbia and chair it Franjo Tuđman in Croatia. The Serbo-croatian conflict became complicated in Bosnia-Herzégovine because of the intervention of the population and the Bosnian army (then called Musulmans), which transformed the conflict into a tripartite war which was most fatal by far of the wars of Yugoslavia.

The wars ended when JNA went to the Slovenia in 1991 and by the defeat of the forces Serbes against the Croatia in 1995. The war in Bosnia ended with the negotiation of the Accords of Dayton, finally signed in Paris the December 14th 1995, following the intervention of NATO and the Croatian army against the forces Serbes of Bosnia in 1995.

Conflicts in the east and the south

• War in Kosovo (1996-1999)
• Conflict in Macedonia (2001)
• Conflict in the south of Serbia (2001)

With the Kosovo, in Macedonia and in the south of the Serbia, the conflicts have due first the ethnic tensions and policies between Serbes, the government Macedonian and the Albanian minorities .

The armed conflict in Kosovo is moulted in war in 1999 when the conflicts in Macedonia and in the south of Serbia are transformed into armed action between the security forces with the State and the guerilla Albanian. The war with the Kosovo ends by an intervention of NATO against the Serb forces (of new conflicts burst however in 2004). The conflict in Serbia and Macedonia ends by peace agreements between the insurrectionists and the government, but the situation remains fragile.

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