Original sentence: An estimated 8,300 were executed, allegedly on Mladić's order.At Srebrenica over 40,000 Bosniaks who had sought safety there were expelled.He refused to go quietly, claiming the support of both the Bosnian Serb military as well as the people.In July 1995, troops commanded by Mladić, harried by NATO air strikes intended to force compliance with a UN ultimatum to remove heavy weapons from the Sarajevo area, overran and occupied the UN safe areas of Srebrenica and Žepa.Karadžić blamed Mladić for the loss of two key Serb towns in western Bosnia that had recently fallen to the Croats, and he used the loss of the towns as the excuse to announce his surprise command structure changes.Karadžić countered by attempting to pull political rank as well as denouncing Mladić as a "madman," but Mladić's obvious popular support forced Karadžić to rescind his order on August 11.Mladić was demoted to an "adviser".On August 4, 1995, with a massive Croatian military force poised to attack the Serb-held Krajina region in central Croatia, Karadžić announced he was removing Mladić from his commandant post and assuming personal command of the VRS himself.On May 12, 1992, in response to Bosnia's secession from Yugoslavia, the separatist Bosnian Serb Parliament voted to create the VRS, or Army of Republika Srpska
Edited sentence: On May 12, 1992, in response to Bosnia's secession from Yugoslavia, the Bosnian Serb Parliament voted to secede from Bosnia