Serbia in the Yugoslav Wars from the FRY, as the Bosnian Serb faction alone could not pay for the costs. The Bosnian Serb Army was led by Ratko Mladić, an extremely controversial figure, who served the Yugoslav Army during the Croatian War of Independence 1991-1992, and has been accused of committing war crimes in Bosnia. Serbian Radical Party founder and paramilitary Vojislav Seselj publicly claimed Milošević personally asked him to send paramilitaries from Serbia into Bosnia and Herzegovina. After 1993, media reports of large-scale atrocities by the Bosnian Serb armed forces, such as the long siege of Sarajevo, resulted in increased pressure and sanctions by
Croat entity in Bosnia and Herzegovina Croat entity in Bosnia and Herzegovina The Croat entity (), or Croat federal unit ("Hrvatska federalna jedinica"), also informally known as the "Third entity" ("Treći entitet"), is a proposed administrative unit of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Since the country is divided into two entities, the Serb-dominated Republika Srpska and the Bosniak-majority Federation, Croats, as one of the three equal constitutive nations, have periodically proposed creating a symmetrical Croat-majority territorial unit as a way to ensure their equality, prevent gerrymandering, simplify the political gridlock and dismantle overburdening administration. During the Bosnian War (1992–95), Bosnian Croats founded their own sub-national entity, Herzeg-Bosnia, which