Programme Erasmus + Europe on the move : Migration Biographies
Theses
doubt , that a military intervention was needed to put the killing to an end . The NATO then fought alongside the Croatian and Bosnian forces that put their differences aside to fight their mutual enemy . The ground forces managed to regain the Serbian-controlled regions , while Croatians reconquered the land of the Krajina , all supported by NATO-airstrikes . As a result , Milosevic , who was under pressure to take responsibility for the Serbian republics in Croatia and Bosnia , had to agree to the peace treaties of Dayton and Paris in 1995 that put the war to an end .
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. Consequences figure 3 : Front lines in 1992 15
Serbia , officially defeated , did not manage to achieve its war aims and now had to deal with political isolation . On top of that , their Croatian and Bosnian enemies had to be recognized as sovereign states . Croatia and Bosnia however now had the western support , for example in the form of economic aid , on their side and were finally fully independent . Contrary to a mostly homogenous Croatia , due to Serbian mass-flight during the war , Bosnia was now politically and ethnically divided into the “ Bosniak-Croat Federation ” and the Serbian “ Republika Srpska ” under the roof of a Bosnian unitary state . 16 As Bosnian President , Izetbegovic put it : “ It is not a just peace , but it is more just than continuing the war ”. 17
3 . Migration Biography of Gabrijela Schneider
16 ( Weithmann , 2000 , S . 503-526 )
17 ( Weithmann , 2000 , S . 527 )
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