The Bosnian War: 1992 - 1995

If you have patiently listened to the first 2 episodes of this series, I hope you feel educated about the long history of this region.  The previous hours have been a preparation to help explain what happened in the 1990s.  Yugoslavia is breaking apart in 1991 and there is growing tension between the different Yugoslav republics.  The politicians have started to prey on their citizens' worst fears about each other.  Hundreds of thousands of people will have to live through the worst European war since the end of World War II.

And international diplomacy will be challenged to rise to the call, and fail over and over again.  It is in Bosnia that we will learn the term 'ethnic cleansing' and relearn the word genocide, and learn that despite the promise to never let that happen again, when put to the test, we are more than willing to watch from the sidelines.