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Kosovo Polje, Serbs and Albanians stood side by side defending the Balkans from further Ottoman expansion (Vickers 1998: 16). It’s important to note that in this point in history ethnic Albanians and Serbs shared a common religion and lived in relative harmony. The battle was ultimately a draw but allowed the Turks to move forward with their conquest and roll back Serbian statehood (Vickers 1998: 16). Modern day Serbian and Nationalism draw on conjectures that Kosovo was predominantly Serb or Albanian

The authors of The Bridge Betrayed and The Buddhas of Bamiyan both identify a different form of cultural eradication that occurred in within the past twenty-five years. In Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Serbs and Croats wanted to destroy the Bosnian Muslim symbols, culture, and population. In Afghanistan, the Taliban destroyed the Buddhas of Bamiyan, and in turn, changed the identity of Bamiyan forever. The practice of cultural eradication is not limited to these two cases. Cultural eradication has taken

socialist republics: Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia. Additionally, two autonomous provinces, Vojvodina and Kosovo, were established in Serbia. Many different ethnic groups called Yugoslavia home, namely the Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, Bosniaks, Albanians, and Montenegrins. However, the presence of large ethnic minorities across republic lines made things complicated, especially with the advent of rising nationalism among these different peoples. The borders

was a war that led to the death of over 100,000 soldiers and civilians(War Crime). The war consisted consisted of two sides: the Bosnian-Serbs and the Bosnian-Croats. The conflict was handled improperly. It even came close to home as one american soldier was stranded in Bosnia in the middle of the war witnessing all that the UN and the government of the Bosnian-Serbs would pronounce to be false. “Genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or

Holocaust: The Srebrenica massacre. Throughout the course of 11 days, over 8,000 Bosniak –Bosnian Muslim- males, specifically those who were of age to join the military, were rounded up, and killed by the Bosnian Serb army. The army’s defense for their actions was that they were trying to reunite Serb territory after the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina became its own state. Despite this claim, the ICTY still charged Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic, two of the men who spearheaded the ethnic-cleansing

The Balance of Power Theory and It’s Application to Kosovo                           Ideas are the corner-stones of International Relations and Diplomacy. These ideas are often titled theories, a term that grants the ideas a certain degree of credibility in application, though they remain theories; they cannot be proved., only applied intelligently in hopes of arriving at the

In the 1990s, war engulfed the Balkans. Part of the purpose was a method called ethnic cleansing and in that cleansing, thousands of women were raped and killed by Serb military men. Part one of the “Women War & Peace” special, titled “I Came to Testify” follows the process of the international court of law as 16 women take the stand against the general during the war, Ratko Mladic. The purpose of this documentary is to tell the stories of those who suffered during the war and lived to tell their

This meeting may have been what inspired the Serbs to launch an ethnic cleansing campaign in which they killed as many as 50,000 Bosniaks. The ethnic cleansing was the largest atrocity since the holocaust in Europe and much like the holocaust, concentration camps, mass grave, rape camps, and many other psychological factors were utilized by the Bosnian Serbs during this time period. Lastly, to look at the responses and consequences from this ethnic

together and was able to extinguish the nationalism growing in many republics. His death however reopened the wound and let the nationalism of the Serbs become existent. The serb forces ideology for a “Greater Serbia” was the very motive that sparked the 3 year long civil war. For starters the Serb forces showed much nationalism by joining up in a group of 16 Serb Political members and writing the Memorandum of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. For them, is was supposedly to support a solution

The Sarajevo Murders and the Moroccan Crisis in 1905 In the years leading up to the Sarajevo murders and the outbreak of World War 1 many events took place that led to the building of tension between the 6 main powers of Europe, although, none of these events caused a war. My aim is to investigate and understand why the Sarajevo murders caused a war to begin, when previous events such as the Moroccan Crisis did not. In order to fulfil my aim I will be considering three