Yugoslavia Partition Timeline

Troubled Times: From Slovenia to Kosovo

Much of this material was taken from:

The September 2001 issue of World Press Review (VOL. 48, No. 9), and
The Reporter (independent weekly), Belgrade, Yugoslavia, June 20, 2001.

 

When it all started, nobody expected it to last as long as it did. Especially considering the fact that the developments in Slovenia in June 1991 resembled an opera fashioned in the spirit of the famous words of an anonymous soldier who, explaining to a reporter what was happening, said in irony and desperation: “It’s as if they are trying to become independent and we are letting them.” Afterward, the famous “as if” became the typical characteristic of the many bloody events that have unfolded for 10 long years, spinning out like film from a reel, until Macedonia this June. The events followed the same road the naive Yugoslavs proudly called the road of “Brotherhood and Unity.” In this way, from northwest to southeast, the flames of war, directed as though by a secret hand pulling the strings of evil, engulfed the countries of the former Yugoslavia one by one.
 

Summary of the partition of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

1. SLOVENIA - 1991 (After a short war, Slovenia obtains independence)

2. CROATIA – 1991 (After fighting, Croatia declares independence, but recognition comes slowly)

3. MACEDONIA – 1991 [Peacefully seceded from Yugoslavia; recognizes September 8 as Independence Day;]

4. BOSNIA (& HERZEGOVIA) - 1992

5. FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA - 1992 (Formed of Montenegro and Serbia, with Serbia including Kosovo)

6. KOSOVO - 2008 (After existing as an international [NATO] protectorate within Yugoslavia since 1999, it declares its independence on Feb. 17.)

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