The Yugoslav wars in the 1990s took the lives of over 100,000 people. After Tito died in 1980 there was a period of instability in which the Serbian politician Slobodan Milosevic emerged to assert Serbian nationalism. He instigated a plan which involved setting up a “greater Serbia” by swallowing large sections of the other parts of Yugoslavia – Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Montenegro. Serbia used the force of the Yugoslav army against these countries and from 1991-92 Dubrovnik came under bombardment for seven months.
Driving through these countries we became more aware of the complexity of the conflicts.