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They organized their genocide by state, (Bosnia and Herzegovina). Their goal was to exterminate all Bosniaks, (Muslim people who lived in Bosnia), and Croats, (Croatians who lived in Bosnia). That made the Bosniaks and Croats the victim. They were being targeted because ever since Bosnia broke away from Yugoslavia, Serbians had less power. Bosnia breaking away from Yugoslavia is the catalyst for this genocide. When they broke away, the

always a back- and- fourth tension between the ethnic groups. “During the 1930s it became apparent that the ethnic groups were unwilling to blend and merge together. The Serbs who made up about 40 percent of the population dominated politics. The Croats and Slovenes resented Serbian aggressiveness. These ethnic groups lived an

Europe, Yugoslavia was created after World War I as a homeland for several different rival ethnic groups. The country was put together mostly from remnants of the collapsed Ottoman Empire and Austria-Hungary. Demands for self-determination by Slovenes, Croats, Serbs, and others were ignored. Yugoslavia thus became an uneasy association of peoples conditioned by centuries of ethnic and religious hatreds. World War II aggravated these rivalries, but Communist dictatorship after the war controlled them for

Serbs was to wipe out the educated, the intellectuals, the wealthy, and any other non-Serbs who actively opposed their rule. By June 1994, fewer than 50,000 remained in their home and the area had been determined "purified". (The Combat). Most Bosnian Croats and Serbs had the option of fleeing to Croatia and Serbia. However Bosnian Muslims had nowhere to go. They crowded into Bosnian cities that were still widely thought to be safe. Serbian forces continued to carry out

Correspondingly, the propaganda of both Croats and Serbs indulged their populations to believe that each side was responsible for their suffering. Further there is a psychological dimension of the ethnic nationalism that is centered around peoples’ perceptions when questioning their identity. Conflict is a process driven by collective needs and fears that comes from a psychological aspect. Psychology drives attitudes and behaviours of individuals and groups. Using Freud’s analysis, Ignatieff focuses

land area, and inspired strong nationalist feelings in Serbs. In 1992, Bosnia declared its independence as well. Bosnia was composed of several ethnicities, including the Bosnian Muslims (Bosniaks), who were the majority, Bosnian Serbs, and Bosnian Croats. Savo Heleta, who was living in Bosnia at the time, described the ethnic boundaries in her book, Not My Turn To Die: “...there were no clear-cut boundaries- there weren’t three different regions, one for each ethnic group. People lived in ethnically

2 million displaced people. This disastrous ethnic cleansing involved the breakup of Yugoslavia into six smaller states including: Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, and Macedonia. Upon this division of Yugoslavia, the Bosnians and Croats were able to gain independence from the Serbs through international backing and militaristic strategic advantages from organizations such as the UN and NATO. The main cause of the Bosnian

ethnic cleansing, crimes against humanity and rape. These wars supplemented and aided the weathering of the Yugoslav state, when its constituent republics declared independence, but the issues of ethnic minorities in the new countries (chiefly Serbs, Croats and Albanians) were still unsettled at the time the republics were accepted internationally. The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was established by the United Nations to prosecute these crimes. According to the International

Ethnic Nationalism Source of Community of Fear Nationalism, according to the most widely accepted definitions of, is the doctrine that the state and the nation should be congruent. However, there is much more to add to the definition of nationalism today in connection to the ethnic and civil society. The definition of nationalism depends on its context. The typology of nationalism defines its strength and/or weakness of the relationship among the community in which it’s defined. While civil nationalism

groups made up the majority of the Yugoslavian population. They had long standing rivalries and tensions the had been steadily increasing over time. After World War I, the three ethnic groups were forced together in the Kingdom of Serbs, Muslims, and Croats. The new kingdom was renamed the