Original sentence: Despite this, an independent Bosnia was proclaimed in March, by which time the country had already plunged into war.However, in February-March 1992 the government held a national referendum on Bosnian independence from Yugoslavia.It is unclear whether it was successful, estimates ranging at 64%-67% support for independence (2/3 of the population was needed).Serbian, Bosniak and Croatian.The referendum and creation of SARs were unconstitutional, and was declared to be illegal and invalid by the government of Bosnia and Herzegovina.This referendum was also unconstitutional, and in addition unconstitutional in the Constitution of Yugoslavia; it was largely boycotted by the Bosnian Serbs
Edited sentence: An independent Bosnia was proclaimed in March, by which time the country had already plunged into war.By 1994, the United Nations estimated that a million non-Serbs had been driven out from the territory controled by Republika Srpska and by the spring of 1996, a United Nations census indicated that Serbs constituted 96.8% of the population of the republic.However, the republic's actions produced worldwide condemnation, the establishment of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in 1993 and the eventual indictment of the Republika Srpska military and civilian leadership for war crimes.It was largely boycotted by the Bosnian Serbs but the remainder of the population voted by a large majority for independence.Serbian, Bosnian and Croatian.The government of Bosnia and Herzegovina declared the SARs and the referendum to be illegal and invalid, and in February-March 1992 held a national referendum on Bosnian independence from Yugoslavia.The leadership of Republika Srpska sought to create an ethnically "pure" state and conducted a large-scale campaign of ethnic cleansing and genocidal massacres against the large non-Serb population within the republic's borders