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
Rape during the Bosnian War In other words, the rape itself served as an instrument of strategic desecration of Bosnian and/or Bosniak identity and anything related to it. In the study entitled "Mass Rape: The War Against Women in Bosnia-Herzegovina", Alexandra Stiglmayer et al. conclude: In August 1992 media stories publicized the use of rape as a war strategy, and one of the first to bring it to the world's attention was "Newsday" correspondent Roy Gutman's programme "Mass Rape: Muslims Recall Serb Attacks", which aired on August 23, 1992. The United Nations Security Council established the ICTY in response to the conflict's human rights violations.