Stjepan Mesić held Milošević responsible for " creating a Greater Serbia on the ruins of the Former Yugoslavia " . Mesić revealed thousands of documents and audio tapes recorded by Tuđman about his plans during a case against Croat leaders from Bosnia and Herzegovina for war crimes committed against Bosniaks . The tapes reveal that Tuđman and Milosević ignored pledges to respect Bosnia 's sovereignty , even after signing the Dayton accord . In one conversation Tuđman told an official : " Let 's make a deal with the Serbs . Neither history nor emotion in the Balkans will permit multinationalism . We have to give up on the illusion of the last eight years ... Dayton is n't working . Nobody - except diplomats and petty officials - believes in a sovereign Bosnia and the Dayton accords . " In another he is heard telling a Bosnian Croat ally , " You should give no indication that we wish the three-way division of Bosnia . " The tapes also reveal Tuđman 's involvement in atrocities against the Bosniaks in Bosnia , including the Croatian president covering up war crimes at Ahmići where more than a hundred Bosniak men , women and children were terrorised , and then shot or burned to death . When asked if " Tuđman 's view was that Bosnia was a mistake and that it was a mistake to make it as a republic after the Second World War and that it should be annexed to Croatia " , Mesić responded " Those were his ideas , that Bosnia was supposed to belong to Croatia on the basis of a decision that should have been adopted by AVNOJ . " The Yugoslav Wars resulted in at least 97,000 deaths of citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina , and more than 1.5 million expelled . A country where previously no region could be described as purely Bosniak , Serb or Croat shifted to a partitioning into multiple ethnically homogeneous nations
war crimes at Ahmići
Ahmići massacre
Partition of Bosnia and Herzegovina