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that were killed in mass. The perpetrators were a combination of Serbian government officials and the Serbian Army. The hostility was mostly caused by a long time hatred between the Serbs and Bosnians. The long time hatred is caused by a combination of religious differences as well as territorial disputes. The Serbs and Bosnians have been attempting to take land from the each other and use it for its natural resources. These reasons were exacerbated by the Bosnian war that

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

on this document, what was the negative consequence of the breakup of Communist Yugoslavia for its citizens? The negative consequence of the breakup of Communist Yugoslavia was “scenes of mass killings of unarmed victims. It is clearly said that the Serb forces, ignoring the Security Council’s presence, proceeded to depopulate the territory of Srebrenica within 48 hours, which caused the death of thousands men and boys. 2. In what ways did Serbian goals conflict with the ideology that motivated the

Samuel Huntington famously stated that the fiercest clashes have become battles between civilizations, according to him these clashes are neither ideological or economic, but rather cultural. Huntington couldn 't have been more mistaken. In reality, the modern world has become plagued with an increasing presence of intra-state wars as modern conflict has become synonymous with clashes between "individuals, groups, and communities that differ very little". Freud attempted to explain this perplexing

determined to never again back down in the Balkans. Between 1912 and 1913, the Balkans fought two wars among themselves. These wars resulted in huge casualties; the Bulgarians lost around 65,000 men, the Greeks 9,500, the Montenegrins 3,000, and the Serbs at least 36,000. The wars caused the people in the Balkans to become angrier as tensions among the Great Powers continued to grow. The instability in the Balkans was initially attractive to the Great Powers because they wanted to gain influence. However

The fact is that, for both Albanian and Serb nationalism, Kosovo serves as a myth, a historical narration, and a national symbol of special religious, cultural and political importance (Baliqi, 2015: 295). Nevertheless, the conflict started to warm up when Milosevic began to infringe upon the fundamental rights of the ethnic Albanians and then later limit their access to institutions. The Special Rapporteurs of the Commission on Human Rights of the former Yugoslavia until 1995, among many others

Yugoslavia in the 20th century underwent great political turmoil, unrest, war, and ethnic conflicts. Throughout the existence of this unstable nation, soccer was the most popular sport with the most devout supporters. The sport and its various teams held strong ties to the political structure of Yugoslavia, being run and controlled often by government institutions. It is for this reason that soccer in Yugoslavia can serve as a political barometer to understand the underlying concerns, ideologies

through various aspects, including language, religion, cultural practices, history, ethnicity. In all the communities I was most interested in the community division between constituent republics in Former Yugoslavia, especially the division between Serbs and Croats. Serbian and Croatian communities share many elements. They both live in the Balkan Peninsula. They are both Slavs. Also, the language difference is very small. Croatian and Serbian are more like two dialects within the same language. With

Drnovsek, Janez. "Riding the Tiger: The Dissolution of Yugoslavia." World Policy Journal 17.1 (2000): 57-63. ProQuest. Web. 5 Feb. 2016. In Drnovsek’s scholarly article he investigates how the collapse of Yugoslavia started after President Tito’s death. He analyzes that after Tito’s death central power started to dissolve and the six republics of Yugoslavia broke off and started to work independently in different directions, also the Communist party became decentralized (Drnovsek 58). He outlines

In 1908, the leaders of Russia and Austria-Hungary arranged to make an agreement that would help both nations achieve their international goals. Foreign Minister Alexander Izvolsky of Russia was looking to re-establish his country’s authority in Europe, which had been damaged after defeat by Japan in a previous war in the Far East (Trueman C. N., 2015). One goal for Baron Lexa von Aehrenthal, Foreign Minister of Austria-Hungary, was to gain better control of his nation’s Balkan territory. After