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Partitions at a Glance
 

The Balkans

1991 — Slovenia secedes after a ten day border conflict with Yugoslav troops.

1991 — War in Croatia over secession, ended by agreement to establish UN Protected Areas in Serbian majority regions, regarded as a de facto partition by Croatian nationalists.

1992-5 — War spills over from Croatia to Bosnia, ended by Dayton Peace Agreement of November 1995, creating two separate and loosely confederated entities, the Bosniac-Croatian Federation and the Republika Srpska. Dayton Agreement gives some legal cover to de facto partition of Bosnia-Heregovina, but also leaves road to reintegration open.

1995 — Croatia reintegrates the bulk of the UNPAs by force, driving around 250,000 Serbs out of Croatia.

1999 — War in rump Yugoslavia to prevent ethnic cleansing in Kosovo, ended by establishment of a NATO protectorate for Kosovo in July 1999. War leaves Kosovo in a semi-partition situation, with a Serbian majority northern strip administered separately from the rest of the Albanian majority province.

1999 — Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Macedonia, together with other east European countries agree on a Stability Pact for South East Europe that is intended to erase the lines of internal partition in the long run. Montenegro given de facto status in pact because rump Yugoslavia, still under Milosevic, not admitted.

2000 — Conflict spreads to Macedonia, ended by agreement for local and municipal devolution, Albanian cultural rights, and NATO supervised demilitarization of Albanian guerrillas.

2000 — Milosevic dislodged in elections, and rump Yugoslavia admitted to Stability Pact.

2001 — Milosevic sent to the War Crimes Tribunal in the Hague, and Yugoslavia replaced by Serbia and Montenegro.

2003 — EU High Representative for Bosnia wrests agreement for integrated army, intelligence and police forces, as well as for integrated civil services.

2003 — Head of UN Mission in Kosovo announces Serbian majority Mitrovica region to be reintegrated in Kosovo administration.

Ireland
 ·  Partitioned 1922
 ·  Wars, 1922-7
 ·  Northern Ireland Conflict, 1970s —
 ·  Peace Process 1992 —

India
 ·  Partitioned 1947
 ·  India-Pakistan wars 1948, 1965, 1971, 1999
 ·  Kashmir insurgency
1990 —
 ·  Peace Process
1997 — more off than on

Palestine
 ·  Partitioned 1948
 ·  Wars, 1948-9, 1967, 1978
 ·  Israeli Occupation of West Bank and Gaza 1967
 ·  Peace Process 1992 —

Cyprus
 ·  Partitioned 1974
 ·  Peace Process 2000 —

Yugoslavia
 ·  Breakup 1992-99
 ·  Wars, 1992-99
 ·  Bosnia semi partition
1995 —
 ·  Peace Processes 1992 —

Text written by Radha Kumar and David Pacheco.
Copyright, Radha Kumar, 2007.