Map showing the collapse of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia between 1989 and 2008.

In 1991, German cartoonist Fritz Behrendt illustrates the inexorable process of ‘dissociation’ of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

The Croat city of Vukovar, totally destroyed in November 1991 after being besieged for three months by the Serbian army.

On 19 June 1992, in Bonn, Foreign and Defence Ministers of Western European Union (WEU) issue a joint declaration on the situation in former Yugoslavia.

In July 1995, civilians who have fled the fighting in the town of Srebrenica move into refugee camps in Tuzla, Bosnia.

In July 1995, the entry of Serbian forces into the Srebrenica enclave in eastern Bosnia culminates in the massacre of some 10 000 civilians, despite the presence of Dutch UN troops in the region proclaimed by the United Nations as a ‘safe haven’.