Election time

Novembre '96: the resurgence of protests in Serbia | Milošević versus the new opposition leader Đinđić | The removal of Mladić | Plavšić's rise to power in Republika Srpska

October ’96: the Milošević–Izetbegović agreement on relations between Belgrade and Sarajevo | The Bosnian Serb boycott of the Tripartite Presidency | Inter-ethnic collaboration in organised crime | The Arizona Market

September 1996: the first elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina since the end of the war | The triumph of ethnic nationalism | Uncertainty over the future of the international peacekeeping force

August 1996: tensions in Mostar following the local elections | Tuđman’s intervention and the end of the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia | The Geneva Agreement establishing the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina | The historic agreement between Zagreb and Belgrade

July 1996: pressure from the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia | Karadžić’s resignation | Biljana Plavšić takes over | The credibility of the UN at stake

June '96: the OSCE's "minimum conditions" for elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina | The discouraging example of Mostar | International pressure on Radovan Karadžić

May '96: Radovan Karadžić' provocations | Mostar out of control | the first trial of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia

April '96: the first investigations in Srebrenica | The international donors’ conference in Brussels | A mirror of the forced peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina

March '96: the difficult reunification of Sarajevo | The work of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia | The missing persons of Srebrenica

February '96: the end of the siege of Sarajevo | The rage of Kosovo | The birth of the Kosovo Liberation Army, the UÇK