The war in Bosnia devastated the civilian population, and war-crimes tribunals were convened in The Hague, starting in 1996, to convict those responsible for the massacres. Part of what made the war in Bosnia so complicated for the international community was the problem of assessing how much of the fighting could be attributed to tensions among Bosnian Croats, Serbs, and Muslims, and how much of the violence was caused by Serbia’s intervention.
波斯尼亚战争对平民人口造成了毁灭性的打击，从1996年开始，在海牙召开的战争犯罪法庭审判了那些对屠杀负责的人的罪行。让国际社会觉得波斯尼亚的战争非常复杂的一部分原因，是怎样评估战争在多大程度上是由波斯尼亚的克罗地亚人、塞尔维亚人和穆斯林间的紧张状态引起的，以及多少暴力是由于塞尔维亚的干涉引起的的问题。