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civil War In Bosnia Herzegovina in 1994, despite the efforts of a united Nations peace­ keeping force. The conflict, as complicated as it was savage, began in 1992 when Bosnia's Serbian minority rebelled against a decision by Yugoslavia's Muslims and Croats to secede. After two-and a half years of fighting, more than 200,000 people were dead or missing. The war was notorious for "ethnic cleansing," the successful Serbian cam­ paign to drive Muslims from northern and eastern Bosnia. Of about 2 million people uprooted by the war, 750,000 were non- Serbs from those areas. Bosnian Serbs had to contend with NATO air strikes. Also, U.N. sanctions and diplomacy appeared to put some distance between the Bosnian Serbs, who rejected an international peace plan, and their allies in Serbian Yugoslavia. In October, in recognition of increased cooperation from Belgrade, the U.N. Defense Secretary William Perry asserted that the Bosnian Serbs were still getting war supplies from their fellows across the border. ivil war con­ tinued to rack Bosnia- Courtesy ofAssociated Press 26