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There was no violence between the Macedonians and Serbs. And, indeed, Slovenia and Croatia were part of the pipeline of foreign fighters and weapons sent to Bosnia under cover of humanitarian aid. The (Balkan) Catholics tend to support Muslims against the Orthodox:

In what may have been an attempt to facilitate his new work, Hassanein acquired a diplomatic passport in March 1992 and became a Sudanese cultural attache. The move allowed him to transport large amounts of cash through Austria and into Croatia and Slovenia without being subjected to police checks, Western officials said.
The agency's first large operation came to the attention of Western intelligence agencies in September 1992, when Soviet-built transport planes began arriving in Maribor, Slovenia, from the Sudanese capital, Khartoum. While the cargo was marked humanitarian aid, it contained more than 120 tons of assault rifles, mortars, mines and ammunition, intelligence sources said. Investigators say the arms originally came from surplus stocks of Soviet weapons stored in the former East Germany and were probably purchased by the Bosnians in Europe. It is not known whether Sudan played a role in the deal other than as a point of transport.
Chartered Russian helicopters ferried some weapons to the Muslim-controlled towns of Tuzla and Zenica in Bosnia. The choppers refueled in Croatia's Adriatic port of Split. Investigators said a Russian-American joint venture called Eco-Trends, an aircraft leasing business, is believed to have provided the helicopters. An official for the Moscow-based firm recalled something about the case but added that many unsavory Russian characters used the name of the firm to win contracts abroad.
The Maribor weapons deliveries stopped in September 1992 when Croatia closed arms smuggling routes in apparent preparation for severing an alliance between its Bosnian Croat proxies and the Bosnian Muslims. The remaining 10,000 assault rifles, 750,000 rounds of ammunition, rockets and explosives sat in the warehouse in Maribor until Slovenian officials revealed their contents almost a year later. Their value was placed at about $10 million.
Austrian agents earlier had identified the relief agency as the financier of the deal, police officials said, after discovering it was paying storage fees for the weapons in the airport.
...Stern said the relief agency was implicated as the financial broker of the deal. Malaysian and Turkish troops who were participating in the U.N. Protection Force then operating in Bosnia smuggled the arms into the country from Croatia, several Western sources said. Commanders of the U.N. force, which was disbanded last year, were unaware of the smuggling, investigators said. Like the Maribor shipment, the weapons are believed to have come from arms stocks in Europe of the old Soviet Red Army, Western officials said. http://www.xs4all.nl/~frankti/Government_96-1/wartime_arms_supply.html

There was no violence between the Macedonians and Serbs

Thanks to the first deployment of U.S. troops in the Balkans--an infantry battalion in ~1993; sent to Macedonia and put on the Serb-Macedonian border to prevent/deter such violence--part of UNPROFOR.

And you miss the point. The goal for each of the various entities of the Former Yugoslavia, Muslim & Christian alike, was to get away from Serb-dominated rule from Belgrade. All of them wanted to do so peacefully, but unfortunately, they all had to fight except for Macedonia.

Joan, you don't need to spam me with accounts of atrocities committed against Serbs. I am fully aware and support the arrest and trial of those responsible. It's just that those guys don't have a bunch of Serb nationalists executing a propaganda campaign on this forum trying to hide the criminal culpability of Milosevic et al.