Intra-Bosnian Muslim War in Western Bosnia | |||||||||
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Part of the Bosnian War | |||||||||
Map of the Bihać enclave (under the control of the Bosnian-Herzegovinian government), surrounded by the Republic of Serbian Krajina (in the northwest), the Autonomous Province of Western Bosnia (to the north) and the Republika Srpska (to the southeast) | |||||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||||
Autonomous Province of Western Bosnia Supported by: Republika Srpska Republic of Serbian Krajina |
Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina Supported by: Croatia (from 1995) Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia (from 1995) | ||||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
Fikret Abdić Zlatko Jušić Hasib Hodžić Radovan Karadžić Ratko Mladić Milan Martić |
Alija Izetbegović Atif Dudaković Izet Nanić †[2][3][4] | ||||||||
Units involved | |||||||||
National Defence of the APZB Army of Republika Srpska Serbian Army of Krajina | |||||||||
Strength | |||||||||
NOZB: 4,000–5,000 VRS: 10,000 RSK: 3,000–5,000[5] |
ARBiH: 10,000[6]–20,000 | ||||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||||
558 killed[7] 121+ killed 202+ wounded 4+ injured[8][9][10] |
672 killed 1,638 seriously wounded 3,981 slightly wounded[11] |
The Intra-Bosnian Muslim War (Serbo-Croatian: Unutarmuslimanski rat) was a civil war fought between the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina loyal to central government of Alija Izetbegović in Sarajevo and the Autonomous Province of Western Bosnia loyal to Fikret Abdić in Velika Kladuša from 1993 to 1995. The war ended in victory of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the abolishment of Western Bosnia.