Peacekeeper strength in Bosnia continues to go down, with the total going down from 7,500 to 7,000 next month. In the beginning (1996), there were 60,000 peacekeepers. The Bosnian armed forces continue to shrink as well, being reduced from 13,000 to 8,000 this year. There is still a great deal of ethnic division in Bosnia, but the violence has not returned.