The Communists were swept from power. After a fierce but short war, the JNA pulled out of Slovenia. But by the end of the year, rebel Serbs in Croatia had taken over one-third of the country. Serbs and Croats are still fighting in three areas of Croatia. The southern republic of Macedonia has also seceded.
Ethnic tensions run high there too.
Bosnia-Hercegovina seceded from Yugoslavia in 1992. As the country's largest ethnic group, Bosnian Muslims occupied the leading positions in the republic's new government. The capital, Sarajevo, was famous as a cosmopolitan, tolerant, ethnically mixed city. Most Serbs and Croats of Bosnia vowed that they would not live under a government dominated by Muslims. In the spring of 1992, Serbs rebelled, with support from the republic of Serbia, and a nasty civil war began, which has continued to this day.