In short
In 1991, Yugoslavia began to fracture as its constituent republics declared independence, starting with Slovenia and Croatia. The breakup triggered a cascade of brutal wars across the Balkans that would kill roughly 140,000 people over the next decade, redrawing the map of southeastern Europe and leaving deep scars that persist today.
How it unfolded.
The five-minute version
What actually happened.
After a period of political and economic crisis in the 1980s, the constituent republics of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia split apart in the early 1990s. Unresolved issues from the breakup caused a series of inter-ethnic Yugoslav Wars from 1991 to 2001 which primarily affected Bosnia and Herzegovina, neighbouring parts of Croatia and, some years later, Kosovo.
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