ABSTRACT
The dissolution of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s brought genocide back to Europe after nearly half a century. During those years the world looked on, shocked but ineffectual, as the multiethnic state of Bosnia-Herzegovina collapsed into genocidal war. The most extensive and systematic atrocities were committed by Serbs against Muslims, but clashes between Croatians and Serbs, and between Muslims and Croatians, claimed thousands of lives. The restive Serb province of Kosovo, with its ethnic-Albanian majority, was another tinder-box, though mass violence did not erupt there until spring 1999.
