Try again. They wanted to be indepedent and just live next to Serbia. It’s a perfect desription of a fault-line war. Christian, Orthodox and muslim fault lines exist right there. FDR and Stalin created boundaries for it a long time ago. Then Clinton goes in, dipping low.
Let’s not lose sight of Bosnia which is nothing more than a microcosm of the failed Yugoslavia experiment. Attempting to recreate it at a smaller scale is proving just as disastrous as the original considering neither the Croats or the Serbs want to live under muslim rule and want to see Bosnia dissolved.