{"slug": "bosnian-war", "label": "Bosnian War", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnian_War", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q181533", "qid": "Q181533", "description": "1992–1995 armed conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina", "entries": 11, "years": 8, "span": [1992, 2017], "span_label": ["1992 CE", "2017 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 4}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 3}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 3}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "croatia", "label": "Croatia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "world-war-ii", "label": "World War II", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "international-court-of-justice", "label": "International Court of Justice", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "bosnia-and-herzegovina", "label": "Bosnia and Herzegovina", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "socialist-federal-republic-of-yugoslavia", "label": "Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "international-criminal-tribunal-for-the-former-yugoslavia", "label": "International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1992, "year_label": "1992 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 5", "text": "April 5 – Bosnian War: Serb troops, following a mass rebellion of Serbs in Bosnia and Herzegovina against the Bosnian declaration of independence from Yugoslavia, besiege the city of Sarajevo.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368521010#April", "title": "1992", "revid": 1368521010, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 1992, "year_label": "1992 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May 16", "text": "May 16–17 – Bosnian War: U.N. peacekeepers withdraw from Sarajevo.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368521010#May", "title": "1992", "revid": 1368521010, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 1993, "year_label": "1993 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 16", "text": "April 16 – Bosnian War: the enclave of Srebrenica is declared a UN-protected \"safe area\". Also members of the Jokeri unit of the HVO entered the village of Ahmići and killed 120 Muslim residents.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366430372#April", "title": "1993", "revid": 1366430372, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 1995, "year_label": "1995 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "December 14", "text": "December 14 – The Dayton Agreement is signed in Paris, officially ending the Bosnian War.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372467239#December", "title": "1995", "revid": 1372467239, "section": "Events › December"}}, {"year": 1995, "year_label": "1995 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "November 16", "text": "November 16 – A United Nations tribunal charges Radovan Karadžić and Ratko Mladić with genocide during the Bosnian War.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372467239#November", "title": "1995", "revid": 1372467239, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 1995, "year_label": "1995 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "November 21", "text": "November 21 – The Dayton Agreement to end the Bosnian War is reached at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio, United States (signed December 14).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372467239#November", "title": "1995", "revid": 1372467239, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 1996, "year_label": "1996 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "September 13", "text": "September 13 – Alija Izetbegović is elected President of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the country's first election since the Bosnian War.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371596794#September", "title": "1996", "revid": 1371596794, "section": "Events › September"}}, {"year": 1999, "year_label": "1999 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "October", "text": "The Croatian cargo ship Borak, sailing from Koromačno to Solin and transporting cement, sank near Sestrica Vela after its cargo shifted because of bad weather. Two crew members (Valter Cimera and Stjepan Španić) lost their lives, while the other three (Ante Jureško, owner and captain of the ship, his son Slavko, as well as Muhamed Čeliković) were rescued by Damir Badžim (from Šibenik) and Slaviša Malešević (refugee from Bosnia and Herzegovina).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369767946#October", "title": "1999", "revid": 1369767946, "section": "Events › October"}}, {"year": 2003, "year_label": "2003 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "February 27", "text": "February 27 – Former Bosnian Serb leader Biljana Plavšić is sentenced by the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia to 11 years in prison for war crimes committed during the Bosnian War.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371470479#February", "title": "2003", "revid": 1371470479, "section": "Events › February"}}, {"year": 2016, "year_label": "2016 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "March 24", "text": "March 24 – Ex-Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadžić is sentenced to 40 years in prison after being found guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity committed during the Bosnian War.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373421880#March", "title": "2016", "revid": 1373421880, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 2017, "year_label": "2017 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "November 22", "text": "November 22 – The International Court of Justice finds Ratko Mladić guilty of genocide committed in Srebrenica during the 1990s Bosnian War, the worst massacre in Europe since World War II. He is sentenced to life in prison.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371948773#November", "title": "2017", "revid": 1371948773, "section": "Events › November"}}]}