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Multiculturalism: Christian Orthodox Serbs in Balkans Being a part of a certain culture means having common ground with some other people. Most of the time we are not even aware that we belong to a certain culture, but every human being belongs somewhere, and not only to one group but to more of them. Our beliefs, customs, traditions, place of birth, religion can determine our belonging to a group. Christianity itself is everywhere in the world and even though long time ago it was one religion;

over Yugoslavia especially Bosnia since so many ethnically different communities lived there. The individual groups within Bosnia joined to form the tripartite coalition and included: the Bosniaks, who were Muslim; Croats, which were Catholic; and Serbs, who were Christian. They voted and discussed issues here

Yugoslavia was created after World War I as a homeland for several different rival ethnic groups. The country was put together mostly from remnants of the collapsed Ottoman Empire and Austria-Hungary. Demands for self-determination by Slovenes, Croats, Serbs, and others were ignored. Yugoslavia thus became an uneasy association of peoples conditioned by centuries of ethnic and religious hatreds. World War II aggravated these rivalries, but Communist dictatorship after the war controlled them for 45 years

to eliminate that dirty story from the history of Serbs.” (Slobodan Milosevic in an interview for the Time magazine, 1995). In the 1990s Yugoslavia was the battlefield of Europe’s bloodiest war since 1945. This notorious culmination was a product of an interconnected chain of events which began in the mid-1980s with the deepening of the conflict and the extremely strained relations between the two major ethnic groups in Kosovo: Albanians and Serbs. Kosovo was the most problematic region in the whole

independence from Yugoslavia. Bosnian Serbs did not like the idea of a free nation with majority of the citizens being Muslim. Serbs killed approximately 100,000 croats and muslims. The Genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina is similar to the Holocaust because both involved the murders of certain cultures. This was the largest massacre in Europe since the Holocaust (Bosnia-Herzegovina). Bosnia-Herzegovina was made up of three main ethnic groups, Bosniak Muslim, Serb, and Croat (Bosnia-Herzegovina). Before

to handle some ethnic troubles in the Autonomous Region of Kosovo between the Albanians and the Serbs. The

death in 1980, Yugoslavia consisted of six republics and two autonomous provinces. Tito unified the Yugoslavians under a socialist system3, p.84. Tito also ‘equitably divided’ Yugoslavia to prevent Serbia from dominating the union5, p.18. 2, p.1. The Serbs then claimed that Tito ‘was discriminating against them’ and disliked the Albanian residence in Kosovo, one of the provinces Tito made autonomous3, p.22. 1. After Tito’s death in 1980, Franjo Tudjman became Croatia’s President through asserting that

The Conflict in the Balkans The conflict in the Balkans is interesting because for years, reporters and politicians have touted it as being the result of ancient ethnic hatred. The first phase of Yugoslavian disintegration can be attributed to the conditions of the people living in Kosovo, an autonomous province of Yugoslavia. In 1981, the socioeconomic conditions in Kosovo were far worse than those in the other republics of Yugoslavia. Poverty was rampant and unemployment was around twenty percent

inhumanity to man for the following reasons. The conflict between ethnic groups in Yugoslavia strengthened after their former president, Josip Tito, perished and the next president was a Serbian named Slobodan Milosevic who was an impatient homophobic serb who fed on hatred to gain power. The rise of extreme nationalist movements in the 20th century led to many events expressing ethnically motivated brutality, such as The Holocaust, The Turkish-Armenian genocide and the ethnic cleansing campaigns of

include ethnic cleansing, crimes against humanity and rape. These wars supplemented and aided the weathering of the Yugoslav state, when its constituent republics declared independence, but the issues of ethnic minorities in the new countries (chiefly Serbs, Croats and Albanians) were still unsettled at the time the republics were accepted internationally. The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was established by the United Nations to prosecute these crimes. According to