Anticipating the outcome of the referendum, the Assembly of the Serb People in Bosnia and Herzegovina adopted the Constitution of the Serbian Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina on 28 February 1992. Political representatives of the Bosnian Serbs boycotted the referendum, and rejected its outcome. 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 by mainly Muslim Bosniaks (44%), Orthodox Serbs (32.5%) and Catholic Croats (17%) – passed a referendum for independence on 29 February 1992. The war was part of the breakup of Yugoslavia. The main belligerents were the forces of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, those of Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia and Republika Srpska, proto-states led and supplied by Croatia and Serbia, respectively. The war ended on 14 December 1995 when the Dayton accords were signed. The war is commonly seen as having started on 6 April 1992, following a number of earlier violent incidents. The Bosnian War ( Serbo-Croatian: Rat u Bosni i Hercegovini / Рат у Босни и Херцеговини) was an international armed conflict that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 19.

This was primarily because of the Washington Agreement.

Consequently, it represented mainly the Bosniaks.ī ^ Between 19, the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina was supported and represented by both Bosniaks and Bosnian Croats. ( ARBiH Commander of the General Staff 1993–1995)įikret Abdić (President of AP Western Bosnia)Īdditional 5,100 killed whose ethnicity and status are unstated Ī ^ From 1992 to 1994, the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina was not supported by the majority of Bosnian Croats and Serbs. ( Prime Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Republika Srpska is recognised as one of two entities that form Bosnia and Herzegovina.

International recognition of Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina as a sovereign state.Establishment of the Office of the High Representative to oversee the civilian implementation of the peace agreement.Deployment of NATO-led forces to oversee the peace agreement.Internal partition of Bosnia and Herzegovina according to the Dayton Accords.

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