When Croatia separated from Yugoslavia on June 25, 1991, while the Croats and Muslims supported the idea of independence, the Croatian Serbs were opposed to the decision. The Serbs, instead, wanted to combine with Serbia to create a greater Serbia. In order to complete this, they began an ethnic cleansing of Croatia. An ethnic cleansing is where an ethnicity is killed off. The Serbs attacked people who were of another ethnicity, such as the Croats and Muslims. However, many became refugees and escaped to…
The nation of Yugoslavia was created in the aftermath of World War I. However, this nation only lasted from 1918 to 1941, when it was invaded by Axis powers during World War II. In 1943, the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY) was established under the rule of authoritarian leader Josip Broz Tito. Tito allowed each of the different regions in the Republic of Yugoslavia to have their own constitutions, laws, and elected leaders and these regions experienced great autonomy during…
follow them. This is called propaganda which is spreading the ideas based on biased or misleading nature to help promote or publicizes a particular institution or particular cause. We have seen different leaders use different forms of propaganda such as Nazi 's, the Soviets, North Korea, 1990s Yugoslavia, and many more regimes. Propaganda isn 't just used by tyrants, communist…
variable” and that there are many factors to determining what is a democratic state, such as opposition to mass media, civil liberties, rule of law, etc. (Diamond 2015). According to scholars, there are so many factors that determine democracy that it is almost impossible to truly determine a definitive answer on whether or not a country is increasing or decreasing in democracy. Croatia is one specific country that has adopted the idea of democracy and recently declared its’ independence on…
Throughout world history, very many different political scenes were altered, former Yugoslavia not being an exception. Yugoslavia was considered to be one of the most liberal communist regime, led by dictator Josip Broz Tito. He kept complete control over the various ethnic, religious, and nationalist groups under a great superpower, “greater Yugoslavia”. Soon after Tito’s death, politicians began imposing nationalistic regimes, which only pinned the Serbs, Croats, and the Bosnians against each…
Criminal Court, and the ICC’s processes of prosecuting individuals accused of committing crimes against the international community are based on what crimes were tried during the Nuremberg Trials. “In the aftermath of the Second World War, the Balkan states of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia, Slovenia and Macedonia became part of the Federal People’s Republic of Yugoslavia. After the death of longtime Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito in 1980, growing nationalism among the…
pregnant with her first kid, my sister Ema. He loved going to the beach, and he told me about how beautiful the oceans are there and how I am missing out. He first saw my mom at a concert, however; they both were seeing someone at the time and he did not talk to her. He later was told that she asked about him, and he made sure to make sure I knew that. He would soon see my mom again after that, and they just hit it off from the start. My dad would marry my mom in 1992 and everything was going…
the death of Yugoslavia’s Communist leader Tito, Slobodan Milosevic made a single promise to the Serbs of Yugoslavia; “You will never be beat again” (Doc.). This statement greatly altered the social and political reality in Yugoslavia, ultimately culminating in the disintegration of the nation. Joe Sacco’s graphic novel Safe Area Gorazde, captures this shift, focusing on the Bosnia, the most multiethnic republic within Yugoslavia at the time. Sacco’s portrayal of the actors involved in the…
ethnicities in a region and the majority attempt to eradicate the other ethnic groups. In the eyes of the majority, ethnic cleansing was used as a tool to “purify” the country by getting rid of the minority to establish ethnic homogeneity (“Ethnic Cleansing”). The term ethnic cleansing was first introduced during the conflict between the Serbians and the other ethnicities of Yugoslavia. The Bosnian genocide is a product of the extreme nationalism expressed by the Serbians and Solbodan…
The Bosnian genocide actually started in the 70s. It was little known because it was during the time of the cold war. The Cold War officially started in 1947, right after the end of World War 2. Nobody knew about the genos=cide because Russia had nuclear missiles in Cuba and everybody was thinking about that. As the cold war was in the middle of the 45-year war, the genocide started to fade away. There is little known about this because nobody knew it happened until after and witnesses were…