Chapter 3 Summary Of Bosnia's Freedom By Holbrooke

As we move into chapter 3, Holbrooke goes further by giving the reader a distinct chain of events that precipitated the conflict that pitted the Serbs against the Croats and the Muslims. First came the Yugoslav-Slovene war that resulted in the independence of Slovenia, which was followed by fighting amongst Serbs and Croats across Croatia. Eventually the European Community recognized Croatia as an independent nation, which prompted Bosnia to follow the Croatian lead and declare its own independence from a Yugoslavia that became progressively Serb-dominated. Holbrooke's cautioning about Bosnia's freedom, an event that seemed so innocent and perhaps righteous to the Europeans, was the most neighboring event that lead to the second Yugoslav war.