The Bosnian War

Fourteen years ago, Bosnia-Herzegovina was devastated by violent conflict and ethnic cleansing.

Nov. 18, 1994

A wounded Bosnian woman hides from a sniper behind a United Nations armored personnel carrier as another woman holds her child protectively, in Sarajevo. Serbs, unwilling to recognize Bosnia's independence, laid siege to the capital city.

Enric Marti-AP

March 6, 1995

Richard Holbrooke, right, then-U.S. Assistant Secretary of State, meets Croatian President Franjo Tudjman, in Zagreb. In 1994, a U.S.-brokered agreement ended the Muslim-Croat war and created a Muslim-Croat federation, only to be challenged a year later. Tudjman decided to expel U.N. peacekeepers, a move the international community worried would reignite the Croatian war between government troops and rebel Serbs.

Hrvoje Knez-AP

April 21, 1995

Aida Bratic, 30, hugs her friend Fadil Lugonjic, 38, after his release by Bosnian Serbs in a prisoner exchange across the Bridge of Brotherhood and Unity in the center of Sarajevo.

Enric F.marti-AP

April 8, 1995

A humanitarian aid convoy moves past United Nations peacekeeping soldiers heading towards Sarajevo.

David Brauchli-AP

April, 1995

Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic, second from right, and his general, Ratko Mladic, left, on Mountain Vlasic. Karadzic, one of the world's most wanted men for planning and ordering genocide, was arrested in 2008.

Anonymous-ASSOCIATED PRESS

July 12, 1995

Bosnian Muslim President Alija Izetbegovic speaks at a press conference in 1995. Following NATO air strikes against Bosnian Serbs later that year, Izetbegovic, Croatian President Franjo Tudjman and Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic agreed to a U.S.-brokered peace deal in Dayton, Ohio.

Rikard Larma-AP

July 26, 1995

On July 11, Bosnian Serbs troops, under the command of General Ratko Mladic, captured the eastern enclave and U.N. "safe area" of Srebrenica, killing about 8,000 Muslim males in the following week. Here, Bosnian Muslim refugees from Zepa, overrun by Bosnian Serbs, wait to board busses that will take them to shelters in government-held Kladang.

David Turnley-AP

Aug. 9, 1995

A stream of Serb refugees from Croatia block the main road to Belgrade in the Bosnian Serb stronghold of Banja Luka. More than 200,000 Serb refugees fled from their homeland in Croatia to neighboring Serb-held Bosnia after the Croatian government army launched a massive multi-front offensive to regain territories occupied by rebel Serbs four years before.

Sava Radovanovic-AP

Aug. 30, 1995

Smoke rises from an ammunition depot in Bosnian Serb stronghold Pale after NATO air strikes. NATO jets went after Serb ammunition and radar sites as well as command and communication centers throughout Bosnia to eliminate threats to UN safe zones.

Oleg Stjepanovic-AP

Nov. 21, 1995

President Bill Clinton announces in the Rose Garden of the White House that Balkan leaders have agreed on a comprehensive settlement to the 43-month war in Bosnia. Vice President Al Gore stands behind him.

Ron Edmonds-AP

Nov. 21, 1995

Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, left, Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic, center, and Croatian President Franjo Tudjman, right, initial the peace agreement after 21 days of talks at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio.

David Longstreath-AP

Dec. 14, 1995

In Paris, world leaders applaud after the signing of the the treaty to forge an end to Europe's most devastating conflict since World War II. Balkan leaders, seated from left: Slobodan Milosevic, Serbia; Franjo Tudjman, Croatia, and Alija Izetbegovic, Bosnia. Applauding behind them are, from left: Spain's Premier Felipe Gonzales, U.S. President Bill Clinton, French President Jacques Chirac, German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, British Premier John Major, and Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin.

Michel Lipchitz-AP

Feb. 13, 2002

Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic smiles as he appears before the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague on the second day of his trial. He was charged with 66 counts of genocide and war crimes in Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo.

Paul Vreeker-ASSOCIATED PRESS

March 18, 2006

After Milosevic is found dead in his cell in The Hague, supporters throng his funeral procession in his hometown Pozarevac during his funeral procession.

Marko Drobnjakovic-AP

July 29, 2008

Serbian ultra-nationalists hold posters showing Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic, in downtown Belgrade. Thousands of extremist Serbs poured into the center of Belgrade to protest the government's plan to extradite ex-Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic to the U.N. war crimes tribunal.

Srdjan Ilic-AP

July 31, 2008

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic stands in the courtroom of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia at the start of his initial appearance in The Hague. Karadzic faced a U.N. war crimes judge for the first time to answer to charges of genocide for his actions in the 1992-95 Bosnia war. His trail has not yet started in Aug. 2009.

Jerry Lampen-REUTERS

Aug. 20, 2009

A cemetery in Sarajevo is filled with graves of people killed in fighting in Bosnia-Herzegovina between 1991 and 1995.

Craig Whitlock-The Washington Post

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The Bosnian War

Fourteen years ago, Bosnia-Herzegovina was devastated by violent conflict and ethnic cleansing.

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