On December 14th, 1995, Bill Clinton achieved landmark success with the signing of the Dayton Agreement, which brought an end to the Bosnian War. A result of the breakup of Yugoslavia in 1991, the war resulted in ethnic cleansing and rapes being committed by Serbian forces against the Bosnian ethnic minorities, forcing NATO and the United Nations to intervene. Although initially successful due to Serbian support, the numerous proto-states involved were all eventually defeated. Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic and dozens of other Serbians would later be deposed and convicted of war crimes, and the Dayton Agreement (which got its name for being signed in Dayton, Ohio) secured the independence of Bosnia and Herzegovina and relative regional stability for Eastern Europe while bringing an end to among the worst humanitarian disasters in European history.
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