Yugoslav Wars | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-10-02

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00:02:48 1 Naming
00:03:54 2 Background
00:10:25 3 Wars
00:10:34 3.1 Ten-Day War (1991)
00:11:45 3.2 Croatian War of Independence (1991–1995)
00:18:00 3.3 Bosnian War (1992–1995)
00:22:37 3.4 Kosovo War (1998–1999)
00:25:20 3.5 Insurgency in the Preševo Valley (1999–2001)
00:26:27 3.6 Insurgency in the Republic of Macedonia (2001)
00:27:30 4 Arms embargo
00:28:05 5 War crimes
00:28:15 5.1 Genocide
00:32:03 5.2 Ethnic cleansing
00:33:58 5.3 War rape
00:38:01 6 Consequences
00:38:10 6.1 Casualties
00:40:22 6.2 Internally displaced and refugees
00:44:44 6.3 Material damage
00:47:52 6.4 ICTY/MICT
00:52:13 6.5 Illegal arms trade
00:54:54 7 Timeline of the Yugoslav Wars
01:02:29 8 See also



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The Yugoslav Wars were a series of separate but related ethnic conflicts, wars of independence and insurgencies fought in the former Yugoslavia  from 1991 to 2001, which led to the breakup of the Yugoslav state. Its constituent republics declared independence, despite unresolved tensions between ethnic minorities in the new countries, fueling the wars.
Most of the wars ended through peace accords, involving full international recognition of new states, but with a massive human cost and economic damage to the region. Initially the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) sought to preserve the unity of the whole of Yugoslavia by crushing the secessionist governments, but it increasingly came under the influence of the Serbian government of Slobodan Milošević, which  evoked Serbian nationalist rhetoric and was willing to use the Yugoslav cause to preserve the unity of Serbs in one state. As a result, the JNA began to lose Slovenes, Croats, Kosovar Albanians, Bosniaks, and ethnic Macedonians, and effectively became a Serb army. According to a 1994 United Nations report, the Serb side did not aim to restore Yugoslavia, but to create a "Greater Serbia" from parts of Croatia and Bosnia. Other irredentist movements have also been brought into connection with the wars, such as "Greater Albania" (from Kosovo, though it was abandoned following international diplomacy) and "Greater Croatia" (from parts of Herzegovina, until 1994 when the Washington Agreement ended it).Often described as Europe's deadliest conflicts since World War II, the wars were marked by many war crimes, including genocide, crimes against humanity and rape. The Bosnian genocide was the first European crime to be formally judged as genocidal in character since World War II, and many key individual participants were subsequently charged with war crimes. The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was established by the UN to prosecute these crimes.According to the International Center for Transitional Justice, the Yugoslav Wars resulted in the death of 140,000 people. The Humanitarian Law Center estimates that in the conflicts in the former Yugoslav republics at least 130,000 people were killed.