History
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It was founded on May 12, 1992 from the army of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from which Bosnia and Herzegovina had seceded the same year. The army counted some 80,000 personnel during the Bosnian War (1992–1995).
The VRS was made up almost entirely of Serb Orthodox officers and recruits from Bosnia-Herzegovina. The army formations that fought for Republika Srpska also included various Serb paramilitary units, as well as Russian, and other volunteers fighting for the Bosnian Serb army.
The VRS has been convicted by the International Court of Justice in the Hague as the institution that participated in the commission of genocide in Bosnia against Bosniaks and Bosnian Croats, and indicted by the ICTY as committing genocide in multiple municipalities including Srebrenica, ultimately acquitted of the charges, exempting Srebrenica. However the leaders were convicted of large crimes against humanity including acts of expulsions, persecutions and exterminations in 37 municipalities in Bosnia. The military leader of VRS was General Ratko Mladić, who is now indicted at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for genocide, as are other high-ranking Serb officers. Mladić was finally arrested in Serbia on 26 May 2011.
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