The Croatian - Serbian War and the 1995 Dayton Agreement

Abstract

The 1995 Croatian-Serbian conflict is one of the conflicts that took place in the orbit of the Croatian War of Independence (1990-1996), as Serbia entered into a conflict with Croatia under the pretext of protecting Serbian minorities in the Croatian lands in the Krajina region, but this was not the main reason to ignite this conflict Rather, the reason was the unwillingness of Serbia to separate Croatian lands from it, especially since Croatia is one of the areas that connect Serbia's lands to the Adriatic River, and by its separation, Serbia has fallen into geographical isolation, in addition to the fact that the latter wanted to fulfill its old dream of building (the Serbia project The major) which can only be achieved by subjugating the republics of the former Yugoslavia under their authority, and therefore the secession of the Republic of Croatia is a break in and of itself the great project of Serbia, and thus the Croat-Serbian conflict is an obvious and inevitable thing.

The Croatian-Serb-Bosnian conflict ended with the signing of the Ardot ceasefire agreement, and the conflict finally ended when the conflicting parties signed the agreement known as Dayton, which was signed in the French capital Paris on December 14, 1995, according to which Bosnia and Herzegovina was made a federal state consisting of two entities of the Bosnian Union. The Croatian, who controls 51% of the country's territory, and the Serb Republic (Srpska), which controls the remaining 49%, with one national government that enjoys a rotating tripartite presidency.