Describe the results of ethnic conflict in Bosnia in the 1990s.

I know that Yugoslavia split up into multiple countries. I also know there was a genocide in Bosnia. However, what were the causes of these, and how were they related to ethnic conflict?

Bosnia was a battlefield for Serbia and Croatia after Yugoslavia split. Both of them had nationalistic leaders, and both of them wanted Bosnia in their territory, and they had populations in it. Serbians were making genocide on Croats as a revenge for the genocide on the Serbians made by the Croatian ustashi half a century earlier, while the Croats were making genocide on the Serbians as a revenge for what they were doing at the moment. Bosnian Muslims were in the middle of it all and they were fighting with both Serbs and Croats. And the Serbians also made genocide on the Muslim population on an ethnic and religious basis.

It was estimated that at about 200,000 people were killed and more than 2,000,000 displaced during the this war. Not just Croats and Muslims were killed in the conflict but also Serbs as well. Eventually, the United Nations peace keepers and United States troops were sent to intervene and stop the Serb’s campaign of ethnic cleansing. Many Serb officers and officials were arrested and put on trial for war crimes.

Many Bosnian Muslims were forced to flee from their homes in Bosnia, while Bosnian Croats were also cleared from Bosnia and had become displaced. The economy of Yugoslav also fell. The nationalist feelings of the people were manipulated because of their current living situations, and they were more susceptible to that manipulation. There were extreme events of violence mainly by Bosnian Serbs