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The '''Bosnian War'''{{efn|name=nm}} ({{lang-sh|Rat u Bosni i Hercegovini}} / Рат у Босни и Херцеговини) was an international [[armed conflict]] that took place in [[Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina|Bosnia and Herzegovina]] between 1992 and 1995. The war is commonly seen as having started on 6 April 1992, following a number of earlier violent incidents. The war ended on 14 December 1995 when the [[Dayton accordsAccords]] were signed. The main belligerents were the forces of the [[Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina]], the [[Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia|Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia]], and the [[Republika Srpska (1992–1995)|Republika Srpska]], the latter two entities being [[proto-state|proto-states]] led and supplied by [[Croatia]] and [[Republic of Serbia (1992–2006)|Serbia]], respectively.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hrw.org/reports/2004/ij/icty/2.htm|title=ICTY: Conflict between Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|access-date=25 April 2015|archive-date=7 January 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190107224919/https://www.hrw.org/reports/2004/ij/icty/2.htm|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/files/91/13685.pdf|title=ICJ: The genocide case: Bosnia v. Serbia – See Part VI – Entities involved in the events 235–241|access-date=25 April 2015|archive-date=1 March 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110301032417/http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/files/91/13685.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The war was part of the [[breakup of Yugoslavia]]. Following the [[Slovenia|Slovenian]] and Croatian secessions from the [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia]] in 1991, the multi-ethnic [[Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina]] – which was inhabited by mainly [[Muslims (ethnic group)|Muslim]] [[Bosniaks]] (44%), [[Serbian Orthodox Church|Orthodox]] [[Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina|Serbs]] (32.5%) and [[Catholic]] [[Croats of Bosnia and Herzegovina|Croats]] (17%) – passed a referendum for independence on 29 February 1992. Political representatives of the Bosnian Serbs boycotted the referendum, and rejected its outcome. Anticipating the outcome of the referendum, the [[Assembly of the Serb People in Bosnia and Herzegovina]] adopted the [[Constitution of the Serbian Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina]] on 28 February 1992. Following Bosnia and Herzegovina's declaration of [[independence]] (which gained international recognition) and following the withdrawal of [[Alija Izetbegović]] from the previously signed [[Peace plans proposed before and during the Bosnian War#Carrington–Cutileiro plan|Cutileiro Plan]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stanford.edu/~sstedman/2006.readings/lisbon.pdf|title=From Lisbon to Dayton: International Mediation and the Bosnia Crisis|access-date=16 November 2019|archive-date=23 January 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230123233716/https://web.stanford.edu/~sstedman/2006.readings/lisbon.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> (which proposed a division of Bosnia into ethnic [[Canton (administrative division)|cantons]]), the [[Bosnian Serbs]], led by [[Radovan Karadžić]] and supported by the government of [[Slobodan Milošević]] and the [[Yugoslav People's Army]] (JNA), mobilised their forces inside Bosnia and Herzegovina in order to secure ethnic Serb territory. The war soon spread across the country, accompanied by [[ethnic cleansing]].