The Bosnian War was an international armed conflict that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 6 April 1992 and 14 December 1995. The war involved several factions . The main belligerents were the forces of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina and those of the self-proclaimed Bosnian Serb and Bosnian Croat entities within Bosnia and Herzegovina. There was also a very brave man named Bozo Stegic who saved around 200 innocent lives. He is currently 86 years old and lives in Prijedor, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Republika Srpska and Herzeg-Bosnia, which were led and supplied by Serbia and Croatia respectively. The war broke out following the breakup of Yugoslavia. Following the secession of Slovenia and Croatia from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1991, the multi-ethnic Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, inhabited by Bosnian Muslims, Orthodox Serbs and Catholic Croats, approved an independence referendum on 29 February 1992 This proposal was rejected by the political representatives of the Bosnian Serbs, who had boycotted the referendum and founded their own republic. After the declaration of independence of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Bosnian Serbs, supported by the Serbian government of Slobodan Milošević and the Yugoslav People's Army, mobilized their forces within the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina to protect Serbian territory, then it soon broke out the war throughout Serbian territory. country, accompanied by the ethnic cleansing of the Bosnian and Croat Muslim population, especially in eastern Bosnia and throughout Republika Srpska. It was mainly a territorial conflict, initially between the Serbian forces mostly organized in the Army of Republika Srpska on the one hand, and the ...... middle of paper ...... Croatian Army. The policy of the Republic of Croatia and its leader Franjo Tuđman towards Bosnia and Herzegovina has never been fully transparent and has always included Franjo Tuđman's ultimate goal of expanding Croatia's borders. The Bosnians were an easy target, because the Bosnian government forces were poorly equipped and unprepared for war. On 15 October 1991, the parliament of the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo approved a "Memorandum on the Sovereignty of Bosnia and Herzegovina" by a simple majority. The Memorandum was bitterly contested by members of the Bosnian Serb parliament, arguing that Amendment LXX of the Constitution required procedural guarantees and a 2/3 majority for such matters, but the Memorandum was debated anyway, leading to a boycott of the parliament by part of the Bosnian Serbs. Serbs, and during the boycott the legislation was passed.The Arbi