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Yugoslav Wars

1991–2001 Balkans Status: ended Casualties: ~140,000

Series of ethnic wars in the ruins of Yugoslavia. Srebrenica genocide (1995) killed ~8,000 Bosniak men. NATO air campaign ended Kosovo war (1999). Yugoslavia replaced by seven independent states.

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Belligerents

  • Serbia
  • Croatia
  • Bosnia
  • Kosovo UCK
  • NATO

Casualties

~140,000

From World at War, an interactive atlas by Jairus Pereira. Figures are approximate, drawn from Wikipedia, UCDP, ACLED and academic sources — a design artefact, not an authoritative register. Contact.