The impact of the ethnic conflict in the Balkans especially of race beliefs and some other things resulted in 100,000 people killed and 1 million people relocated from their homes during this conflict. Refugees fled to neighboring European countries and the European Union, and NATO sent peacekeeping troops to the region to prevent the conflict from starting again.
In April 1992 war broke out between Bosnia's Muslims and Croats, who were on one side, and Bosnian Serbs. Bosnia won international recognition a day later. Led by Radovan Karadzic and armed by the JNA, the Serbs declared that territories under their control belonged to an entity called Republika Srpska
