... in Bosnia called a truce and formed a confederation, which in August agreed to a plan for 51-49 split of Bosnia, with the Serbs getting the lesser percentage. Despite the Muslim-Croat alliance, the peace proposal, and an ongoing arms embargo against all combatants, the fighting did not stop. In 1994 and 1995 the Bosnian Serbs massacred residents in Sarajevo, Srebrenica, and other cities. The Bosnian Serbs wanted to unite all Serb-held land of the former Yugoslavia. By September 1995, however the Muslim-Croat alliance's conquests had reduced Serb-held territory in Bosnia from over two-thirds to just one-half the percentage allocated in the peace plan for the Serb autonomous region. On December 14, 1995 the leaders of Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia signed the Dayton peace accords, officially ending the wars in Bosnia and Croatia after about 250,000 people had died and more than 3 million others became refugees. What is the cause of ...

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