Yugoslav wars — a series of armed conflicts in 1991-2001 on the territory of the former Yugoslavia that led to the collapse of the latter.
Mostly Yugoslav war included a number of ethnic conflicts between Serbs on one side and Croats, Bosniaks and Albanians on the other, as well as Croatian-Bosnian conflict in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the conflict between Albanians and Macedonians in Macedonia, caused by religious and ethnic contradictions. The Yugoslav war was the bloodiest in Europe since the Second world war. To investigate into the war crimes created the international criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.