The Second Bosnian War

Overview
The Second Bosnian War, was a conflict that occurred in the summer of 2016 and would last only a few months - in which the Provincial Roman Republic (PDR) accused Bosnia of provoking political and societal unrest. The PDR would crush these revolts, and on June 4th, the PDR with the backing of the ERR would invade Bosnia.

Background & History
Prior to the Second War in Bosnia, the PDR had wanted to expand their borders, however had political complexities on all fronts - the PDR officials knew they were on good terms with the Romanians and Bulgarians for the most part. Greece and Macedonia were the closet allies in the region excluding the Eastern Roman Republic, in which the PDR is a puppet state too. On it's more northern border Serbia had issues with the PDR but the PDR saw Serbia more as an ethnic regional ally, and did not wish to invade and anger ethnic minorities in the PDR.

However, the Serbs did have an issue with territory as the Dacians did take southern Serbian lands from the Serbs in the 1990's while also cutting Serbia off from Kosovo. This would prove to be a point of contention between the two nations, however to the south Montenegro was neutral with the PRD, but their tolerance with Muslim Kosovo caused some tension. Kosovo itself was a disliked enclave in the region, majority Muslim - filled with crime and weak government, this would be a destabilizing factor in the region but the PDR knew invasion here was impossible due to NATO presence still in the province.

So the only other option was Bosnia, large chunks were Serb enclaves in the east, while some western regions were more Croatian. These two groups had been neutral towards the PDR and the main target was Bosniak Muslim areas.

The reason for the hatred towards more Muslim groups in the region was historical hatred of the Ottoman Muslims, who ruled the region for roughly 600 years - while also Christianity was being promoted in the ERR and all puppet states, as the Divine Order of Christ's Blood. A organization that had entered the "Roman Sphere" to bring their version of Christianity, their goal was to spread their sect of Christianity "Roman Sphere" and in doing this hope to get new allies and convert like minded populations to see their vision and cause. But this was happening since the early 2010's.

The Red Movement Uprising
But during late April, a internal crisis appeared "The Red Uprising Movement" - a organized moment of all left wing parties and organizations in the nation, would publicly revolt against the PDR regime, and eventually early this movement would turn into a violent uprising. This would be seen as a opportunity to the Dacian politicians in the Senate and would spin the crisis, for a precursor to invasion. The capital, where most of the violence occurred became a war zone, interior troops had difficulty dealing with the situation and called in the Dacian Armed Forces, however the government would request ERR help - in response the ERR would send one Praetorian Legion to help crush the uprising.

Rumors began to circulate that the Filii Caesar (FC) Paramilitary group had been involved in clean sweep missions in predominantly leftists areas of the city, when atrocities occurred. But there was no strong evidence of the group's involvement besides the atrocities committed and FC graffiti that was found. But other atrocities did occur under the watch of the regime, when ERR's Frumentarii agents ordered the liquidation of leftists ghettos in the city - also coined "Red Streets", with some pointing to pre-made lists of individuals and their families that would be targeted.

Nearing the end of the crisis, PDR forces would be flown into the city and clean out a last remaining Red stronghold. What came to be is not forsure known, as many details may have been fabricated by the regime. But what the official record goes is a combined force of ERR/PDR forces attacked the last stronghold, killing all within but found a massive stash of weapons - along with documents showing targets of individuals and locations. European contacts, and Bosnian government support via equipment, and also in some documents found.

It was supposedly discovered in these documents that the Bosnian government wanted to support a popular uprising to replace the hostile PDR regime with a friendlier one, even if it is a left wing regime instead of a ethnic Bosnian one, or Muslim majority.

The unrest would last a month till about late May, with the many press releases in the "Roman Sphere" accusing, Bosnia of subverting the nation state of the PDR, plans were then drawn up for invasion. But some outside the Balkan region disprove the fact that Bosnia had anything to do with the uprising. But even the PDR began invasion plans after many repeated ERR attempts to order the government to wait, as the ERR advised it may be going into open conflict with Turkey in the coming months due to extremely high tensions. However, before the ERR handler to the PDR could make a nation-wide motion to put the PDR under ERR Senate control, the PDR invaded Bosnia on the night of June 4th, 2016. Starting the Second Bosnian War.

Even though the ERR had huge disagreements about the new war, they had to support the PDR or face major political heat over not aiding a Thracian puppet. Along with the close ethnic relations both nations had, it would cause division if the ERR would not support Dacian expansionism.