Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

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    state. The ethnic conflict occurred in a really long time since Bosnian separated from Yugoslavia. Then, there is Bosnian Genocide that took place between 1992 and 1995. The Bosnian Genocide was the conflict between Serbs and Bosnian Muslims, the ethnic conflict, was stopped by the NATO and United Nation. Bosnia had the ethnic conflict that continued from the Yugoslavia, “The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was one of the more liberal communist regimes, led by the enigmatic dictator Josip

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    state of Yugoslavia, disbanded in 1992 due to the Yugoslav Wars ("The Breakup of Yugoslavia, 1990–1992 - 1989–1992 - Milestones - Office of the Historian."). Akin to most other genocides that have previously been recorded throughout history, the Bosnian genocide was caused by part of the population believing they had second-rate citizens in their land, and with that view established, they wanted to eradicate the ones they deemed unfit for their country & society. Upon the Socialist Federal Republic

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    In my opinion, I feel Marina Abramovic and my main goal as an artist is not only to completely change the way art is seen by the public, but to push the performance the same line as fine art. Marina Abramovic was born in Belgrade, Capital of Yugoslavia on November 30, 1946. Many people asked her where she is from, she replied “I came from a country that no longer

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    The Bosnian Genocide began in April of 1992 and ended in 1995. It was a war between the Bosnian Muslims, the Croats, which are Catholics, and the Serbs, which are Orthodox Christians. It occurred in Bosnia-Herzegovina where the population was about 3.8 million. The Bosniaks made up 44 percent of the population, the Serbs 31 percent, and the Croats 17 percent. The country is only about the size of West Virginia. The Bosniaks were treated unfairly and inhumanely during this span of three years. It

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    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

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    six republics thats formed Yugoslavia would come together and blend beautifully to create a perfect concoction of skill and heart to battle against the elite European soccer clubs. But this team served as just a crumbling monument to what could have been, winning the most prestigious award in club soccer. In 1991 Red Star won the Champions Cup, but that was really when the geopolitical situation started to spiral with war erupting. As war and conflict truly engulfs that majority of Yugoslavia as the

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    Breakup Of Yugoslavia

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    Carole Rogel pointed out that the strongest support for Markovic and a united Yugoslavia came from abroad, from the European governments, the United States government, and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The EC tried to stop the war, holding weekly meetings, usually in The Hague, and brokering more than a dozen failed truces

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    Former president Josep Broz Tito held Yugoslavia 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

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    ordinary people took political action around the fall of the communist regime. Protests ranged from small events to large, violent protests that changed the composition within Yugoslavia. The dynamics of political elites and citizens began to take a different shape as the structure of the authoritarian regime evolved. Yugoslavia suffered from instability due to rapid changes socially, politically, and economically in which paved way for Milosevic Slobodan. However, there was essentially two main reasons

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    huge gathering of Serbs assembled on the site of the battle of Kosovo Polje, where an Ottoman army inflicted a crushing defeat on Serbian forces 600 years earlier, he launched a campaign to restore Serbian greatness that resulted in the break-up of Yugoslavia, amid the worst atrocities and violations of human rights since the end of the Second World War. While the formidable Serb-led Yugoslav army was used against Croats too, the worst excesses and “ethnic cleansing'; took place against the

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