As the Cold War zzled out in the late 1980s, however, so did the money that had owed into Yugoslavia from the West. is, coupled with Tito’s death and his replacement with Serbian nationalist Slobodan Milosevic, who not only saw the Serbian nation as the real owner of Yugoslavia, but decided to pursue a politics along ethnic lines, ignited a powder keg. In June 1991, Slovenia and Croatia declared their independence, soon followed with Macedonia in September 1991 and Bosnia-Herzegovina in March 1992. e federal army of Yugoslavia initially tried to bring Slovenia and Croatia back into Yugoslavia by force. However, the recognition given to them by European countries and later the US—not to mention the UN peacekeeping forces deployed to monitor the cease re established after the withdrawal of the Yugoslav federal army—gave Belgrade no choice but to let Slovenia and Croatia go. However, when Bosnia-Herzegovina declared independence in March 1992, a move recognized by the EU, Bosnian Serbs led by Radovan Karadzic and supported by Serbia declared the establishment of the Republika Srpska (“Serb Republic”), which left the Muslim Bosniaks, demographically the majority, with a small piece of territory. As this was not enough, to enforce the new Serb Republic, Bosnian Serbs besieged several cities, including the Bosnian capital Sarajevo, and tried to expel the Muslim Bosniak population from their recently created state, a move that eventually led to the creation of concentration camps and much worse— the mass ethnic cleansing of the Bosniaks. Nationalism not only tore apart Yugoslavia, but led to the worst ethnic cleansing in Europe since World War II. The correct answer is Choice C.