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How many people were killed and displaced during the Bosnian War?

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Bosnian conflict: destruction in Sarajevo — Bosnian War Buildings and vehicles destroyed in Grbavica, a suburb of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, during the Bosnian conflict (1992–95).

During the Bosnian War (1992–1995), the conflict resulted in a significant loss of life and mass displacement of the population. While early estimates suggested that at least 200,000 people had been killed, subsequent studies have concluded that the death toll was approximately 100,000 people.12

Regarding displacement, more than 2,000,000 people were forced from their homes during the conflict. This mass displacement was largely driven by ethnic cleansing, a process aimed at creating ethnic purity in areas that were previously ethnically mixed. While hundreds of thousands of these displaced individuals eventually returned to their prewar homes, a significant portion of the population resettled in areas where they belonged to the majority ethnic group.123