"CROATS AND SERBS: TWO OLD AND DIFFERENT NATIONS" Dr. O. Dominik Mandic PREFACE The constitution of present-day Yugoslavia generally recognizes that Yugoslavia is a multinational state in which there are several nations: Serbs‚ Croats‚ Slovenes‚ Montenegrins‚ Macedonians‚ as well as national minorities: Albanians‚ Rumanians‚ Hungarians‚ Germans and Italians. A separate republic was created in 1945 for every nation in Yugoslavia and allowed by the constitutional law to secede from the common
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national minorities in Croatia are confronted with. According to the 2011 census there were 186‚633 ethnic Serbs living in Croatia‚ 4.4% of the total population. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbs_of_Croatia ) This number is the number of people who are living in Croatia after the war and comparing with the number of 581‚663 people‚ this number is significantly reduced. (see Table 1) Ethnic Serbs are by far the largest minority and together with Roma population‚ they are facing with the most discrimination
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that precipitated the conflict that pitted the Serbs against the Croats and the Muslims. First came the Yugoslav-Slovene war that resulted in the independence of Slovenia‚ which was followed by fighting amongst Serbs and Croats across Croatia. Eventually the European Community recognized Croatia as an independent nation‚ which prompted Bosnia to follow the Croatian lead and declare its own independence from a Yugoslavia that became progressively Serb-dominated. Holbrooke’s cautioning about Bosnia’s
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20th century. The Serbs (Orthodox Christians) have systematically killed Ethnic Albanians (Muslims)‚ both soldiers and civilians. This is called genocide. Genocide is the systematic destruction by a government of a racial‚ religious‚ or ethnic group (encyclopedia.com). The war that this genocide was a part of started in 1992 when the US and the European community recognized Bosnia as an independent country. The president of Yugoslavia at the time‚ Slobodan Milosevic‚ a Serb‚ became infuriated
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compressed under the regime of Josip Broz “Tito”‚ who managed to keep them united for 35 years‚ however after the death of Tito‚ violence escalated. Under General Ratko Mladić’s leadership‚ neighbors started killing neighbors‚ and changed the way Serbs‚ Bosnians and Croats treat each other up until now. Forgiveness for the killings is still hard to find‚ though more people are beginning to see the benefit in forgiving‚ and slowly the ethnic groups affected by the Bosnian Genocide are started to move
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campaign against the Serbian army to re- establish peace and order in Kosovo. As a result of the lack of planning and miscalculation‚ more than 800.000 Kosovar Albanians had to flee their homes and thousands of civilians were used as military targets by Serbs forces‚ provoking one of the most sadistic massacres in Europe since the Second World War. NATO failed in crucial points during the Kosovo crisis‚ which led to the war. Despite the continuous warnings from different sources‚ The Alliance never took
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Introduction- I would say that the perspective linking US strategic and economic interests to so-called ‘humanitarian interventions’ is a correct one. Following the Cold War‚ the US still maintained its designs for global hegemony. It had economic interests in many regions of the globe. The health of these interests mainly depended on accessibility and security for US investment in resource-rich areas. More importantly‚ in order to preserve the existence of NATO(which the US counted on in order
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"I wouldn’t mind if they needed to take [Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic] out‚" said Chris Walter‚ 23‚ a college student living in Chagrin Falls‚ Ohio. I felt the same way about Saddam Hussein. I think the longer you keep the problem around‚ the sooner it is going to come back and bite you." From the Washington Post April 18th‚ 1999 The horrors of the atrocities committed against Kosovo such as the targeted attacks on civilians‚ "ethnic cleansing"‚ and
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Genocide commenced because Bosnian Serbs wanted to be a part of a dominated Serbian state in the Balkans “the Greater Serbia” that Serbian separatists had long envisioned (Bosnian Genocide 1). Bosnian Serb actions also appear to have been motivated in part by revenge (Rhode 1).In 1992 Bosnia was recognized as an internationally independent state. The Muslim-led government wanted to maintain Bosnia as a unified‚ multi-ethnic state‚ but the militarily powerful Bosnian Serbs assisted by Serbia had taken control
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Ethnic Religion Cleansing/Genocide (Bosnia) In 1991Political upheavals in the Balkans displaced 2.700.000 people by mid-1992 of which over 700.000 of them sought asylum in other European countries.Methods used during the Bosnian ethnic cleansing campaigns were including murder‚ torture‚ extra-judicial executions‚ rape and many other ways sometimes you cant even imagine that something like that can be done to a human being. Since the war stopped in July 1995 things started to get better. People
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