Often described as Europe 's deadliest conflicts since World War II , the wars were marked by many war crimes , including genocide , crimes against humanity and rape . The Bosnian genocide was the first European crime to be formally judged as genocidal in character since World War II , and many key individual participants were subsequently charged with war crimes . The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia ( ICTY ) was established by the UN to prosecute these crimes
Bosnian genocide
Bosnian genocide
Yugoslav Wars