Yugoslavia Source Analysis

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Nationalism, Security, and the Death of Yugoslavia Norma Percy’s “The Death of Yugoslavia” frames the political events that took place towards the end of the Cold War that would ultimately result in the dissolvent of Yugoslavia. After the death of Josi Broz Tito, the once suppressed nationalism between the Serbs and Croats was reignited under the control of Slobodan Milosevic. The Serbs claimed that their people were poorly treated at that the Albanians yearned for an ethnically pure Yugoslavia. Unlike his predecessor, Milosevic catered to the Serbs, lending an ear to their nationalistic tendencies instead of crushing it.

Schwartz’s journal inspects the argument that was widely considered to be the reason as to why Yugoslavia separated, which was ancient hatreds. However, Schwartz argues that even though there was a history of violence and hatred between the member states of Yugoslavia, the real issue and cause of the bloodshed and dissolution boiled down to the readiness of the majority of the populace to advance with society and its liberalist views. Which was disapproved of and scrutinized by Serbia and Slobodan Milosevic (President of Yugoslavia and Serbia at the time). This difference of beliefs and values was what caused the bloodshed, one group (majority of states) wanted to leave and the other would not let them leave.

Josip Broz came to power in 1943, and he made sure to keep everyone in check, making sure that no ethnic groups controlled the country.Unfortunately, after his death in 1980, Yugoslav went through many ups and downs due to different ethnic groups wanting independence. Finally in 1987 Slobodan Milosevic grew to power and he changed many things, so that it could favor Serbs. “He created an army that was 90% Serbian, and he extended his power over the country’s financial, media, and security structures. Later, with the help of Serbian separatists in Bosnia and Croatia, he convinced them that other ethnic groups posed a threat to their rights”(The Bosnian War and Srebrenica Genocide). That’s when the genocide started, of mass killings. Croatia and Bosnia wanted independence as well. Yugoslav began to attack Croatia to help any ethnic Serbs that lived there. They took over the city, Vukovar, and had

Nationalism had been voiced many time’s by Milosevic which he uses to voice out against the Bosnian state. With the help from Karadzic another person who was indicted for war crimes, Milosevic was able to gain a stronger foothold in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Rape camps were used and created to eliminate the Bosniak bloodline. “Thousands of Muslim and Croatian girls and women were raped and made forcibly pregnant in settings including Serbian-run concentration camps, of which about twenty are solely rape/death camps

At the start of the Cold War, Yugoslavian communist partisans 'liberated' Kosovo and surrounding countries resulting in the killings and repression of thousands of Kosovars. Under the Yugoslav Constitution of 1974, the Socialist Autonomous Province of Kosovo became a constituent component of the Yugoslav Federation with direct representation and voting rights on federal institutions. In 1981, major

As one of the most troubled region of the Balkans in Central Europe, the Balkans were affected by strife and hostility. The problems in the Balkans not only affected the people living in this region, but also other large European powers that fueled many of the major conflicts and events of Europe at the time. The First Balkan War and its profound effects on European history will be discussed, while also exploring the future conflicts in both the Balkans and the rest of Europe.

This quote clearly reflects the Bosnian ethnic conflict. It states seemingly that there is a lot of racism between each ethics and they want their own 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.

The Serbian army attacked many towns along the Croatian border, targeting civilians. Among the states fighting for independence, Bosnia was perhaps the most ethnically diverse with Serbs, Croats and Bosniaks all inhabiting the new territory’s land. The Serbs living in Bosnia supported their Serbian government in Yugoslavia and took the fight into their own hands murdering Bosniaks to cause chaos. This ethnic cleansing wasn’t limited to Serbs as Croats living in Bosnia turned on the Muslim Bosniaks and started their own ethnic conflicts.

The ethnic divide has grown and is shaping the future of the conflict. War breaks out and Serbs, under the leadership of Radovan Karadzic, lay siege to capital Sarajevo. The U.N. issues sanctions on Serbia for backing rebel Serbs in Croatia and Bosnia. The U.N. is trying to defuse the conflict before it get wholly out of control. Bosnia peace efforts fail, and all-out war breaks out between Muslims and Croats, who were previously allied against Serbs, Muslims and Croats. In order to spare the civilian population the UN creates safe zones, place where everyone is safe and the combatants should not attack. They are Srebrenica, Zepa and Gorazde in eastern Bosnia. According to, Steven L. Burg and Paul S. Shoup Armonk, “The US understood that by 1994 recognized the need for a military-strategic balance between Croatia and Serbia, the partitioning of Bosnia, and denying a military victory for the

Yugoslavia was a country that was built by brotherhood and Unity but got destructed by civil war and struggle between too many ethnic groups in the region. Yugoslavia was formed at the end of World War I with the collapse of the Austria Hungary empire. The country was a communist country and was called the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. It consisted of six republics: Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Montenegro, Macedonia, and Bosnia & Herzegovina. It had more than twenty ethnic groups. The nation remained unified for more than seventy years but it fell apart because of racial segregation and civil war forming seven new independent states. This civil war was the bloodiest war on European soil since World War II.

New York: Oxford University Press. Retrieved from Questia School. Ramet, S. P. (1996). Balkan Babel: The Disintegration of Yugoslavia from the Death of Tito to Ethnic War (2nd ed.). Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

It was when Bosnia and Herzegovina’s independence was recognized by the United States and the E.C. (European Community, later to be known as the European Union) on April 7 of 1992 did many of these racial tensions come to a head, and many cite this day as the beginning of the Bosnian war. In April of 1992, many towns with large Bosniak populations were attacked by parliamentary forces and Yugoslavian army units, and this is when many people began to describe the war and conflict as an “ethnic cleansing”. The largest group of attackers were Bosnian Serbs, who were backed by the largely-Serbian Yugoslav army. The Serb armies pushed to claim as much territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina as possible, their eventual goal being to annex the block of territory, and they believed to do so they needed to exile and remove as many of the Bosniaks from the area as

After Tito’s6 death in 1980, the Western Balkans were living in a period of tranquillity and rapports among the republics were relatively calm. This situation lasted until 1987 when facts able to threat the stability of the area emerged; Slobodan Milosevic was nominated President of Serbia arising nationalist ideologies already existing since the

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