ABSTRACT
The dissolution of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s returned genocide to Europe after nearly half a century’s absence. During those years, European states and the wider world looked on ineffectually as the multiethnic state of Bosnia-Herzegovina collapsed into genocidal conflict. The most extensive and systematic atrocities were committed by Serbs against Muslims, but clashes between Croats and Serbs, and between Muslims and Croats, 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.
