Bosnia 1995: The war goes on

Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1995: The war goes on...

The Dayton negotiations between Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina, mediated by the U.S., fail since the Bosnian Serbs refuse to accept what negotiated by Milosevic (an autonomous Republika Srpska within a state of Bosnia and Herzegovina). As a result, the war goes on. The Croatian and Bosnian armies (HVO and ARBiH) press over the Republika Srpska militias (VRS), leading to the fall of Banja Luka. In eastern Bosnia, after genocide in Srebrenica, U.N. troops cannot hold Foca or Gorazde either, which fall under combined Srpska/Serbian (VRS/JNA) forces. All Muslim population in the eastern Bosnian enclaves is liquidated.

As a result, the U.S. continues its intervention by shelling Bosnian Serbs and starts attacking VRS/JNA logistic lines in Serbia too. In Belgrade, the opposition rallies in protest movements against the Milosevic regime, while the arrival of a new influx of Bosnian Serb civilian refugees from former RS territories, after those from Croatian Kraijna, puts an additional strain on state resources. By May 1997, the Croatian and Bosnian armies manage to liberate all Bosnian territory and push Serbian forces beyond the Drina river.

At the 1997 elections, Milosevic loses power to the opposition coalition, Democratic Movement of Serbia. The new government signs peace with Bosnia and Croatia, and starts dismantling Milosevic's police state. In 1999, the autonomy of Kosovo and Vojvodina within Serbia-Montenegro is restored.