Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Firayim Ministan Major ya zo daidai da rushewar Yugoslavia da sakamakon yaƙi a Bosnia da Herzegovina (da sassan Croatia). Tashin hankali tsakanin jamhuriyoyin da suka kafa Yugoslavia ya kasance yana ƙaruwa tun bayan mutuwar Shugaba Josep Broz Tito a 1980, wanda rashin tabbas na siyasa ya haifar da rushewar Kwaminisanci a duk faɗin Gabashin Turai a cikin lokacin 1989-1991. A watan Yunin 1991 duka Slovenia da Croatia sun ayyana 'yancin kai; yayin da gwamnatin tsakiya ta Serbia a Belgrade ta bar Slovenia kusan iri daya ta fita bayan kawai wata
Bayan wani ɗan gajeren lokaci na yaƙin, yanayin da ke cikin Croatia, wanda sassansa ke ƙunshe da yawancin ƙabilancin Serbia, ya kasance mafi ƙalubale. Tarayyar Turai, a kan dagewar Jamus, ta amince da 'yancin kan jihohin biyu a watan Disamba na 1991. Yaƙin ya ɓarke tsakanin Serbia (wanda mai kishin ƙasa Slobodan Milošević ke jagoranta) da Croatia (wanda Franjo Tuđman ke mulki) a kan yankin da ke zaune a yankin Slavonia a arewa maso gabashin Croatia, wanda ya sa Majalisar Dinkin Duniya ta aika da rundunar kiyaye zaman lafiya (UNPROFOR). Yaƙin da ya fi tsanani duk da haka ya faru ne bayan sanarwar samun 'yancin kai ta Bosnia da Herzegovina a ƙarƙashin Shugaba Alija Izetbegović a ranar 6 ga Afrilu 1991; an raba jama'ar jamhuriyar tsaunuka tsakanin Bosnian Serbs, Bosnian Croats da Bosnian Musulmai (ko 'Bosniaks'), kuma yaƙin basasa ya ɓarke tsakanin su, tare da Bosnian Croats da Bosnian Serbs da Tuđman da Milošević suka goyi bayan su. Yaƙin ya kama Turai da duniya farat ɗaya, kuma an soma yaɗa hotuna masu ban tsoro na sansanin fursunoni na yaƙi (waɗansu sun kamanta su da sansanin Nazi), da yawaitar 'yan gudun hijira da kuma yaƙe-yaƙe na ƙabilanci a dukan duniya, wanda hakan ya sa aka yi kira a sa hannu.