Yugoslavia

Introduction Sexual crimes are of an enormous complexity, not only to investigate but also to explain and to understand. The key is to be able to differentiate between the sexual crimes. The motivation of offenders can vary greatly, and it can depend on many variables: including opportunity, victim selection, and mental illness. The first important distinction to make is between sex offenders and sexual predators. Sex offenders only commit one crime and most often they victimize only one person…

The ethnic cases of the genocide in Rwanda and the war in Bosnia will dwell “on the background and buildup to conflict, particularly how the groups employed their cultures to establish identities and to define claims and grievances” (Eller, Violence and Culture, 237). The war in Bosnia was based on culture and history in Bosnia. It was a war against multicultural ideal against the Muslims. Mosques were destroyed as an ethnic cleansing was occurring. Cemeteries, schools, and much more were…

Following the end of the Second World War, Marshall Tito, former leader of the Partisans, lead the ethnically diverse, if not artificial, state of Yugoslavia into a new age of optimism that lasted for three decades. Unfortunately, this age ended with his death. His death, along with the fall of the Soviet Union a decade later, left the fate of Yugoslavia, and its many peoples, uncertain. Following the fall of the Soviet Union and its satellites in 1989, a feeling of uncertainty tainted the air…

Over 100,000 people died in the Bosnian War, as a result of the disintegration of Yugoslavia, and it’s leader, Josip Tito, was not even alive. A dictator is someone who has taken control over a country and transformed it into a state of totalitarianism, usually by means of force, although Josip Tito not only had a strong military but a wide base of support that allowed him to arise. His policies and ideas were more liberal and he leaned towards a more democratic society, however there were…

Croatia is currently an independent nation in Eastern Europe. It has rich culture and a compelling past. Since 1918, Croatia was one of fourteen different nations that made up the country of Yugoslavia. Although many Croats felt connected to the other citizens of Yugoslavia, nationalistic movements gained popularity due to ethnic tensions between the republics. The Croatian government felt that the government was not benefitting them as much as it should, and therefore declared independence in…

Revolution, he joined a Red Guard unit in Omsk, Siberia. In October 1920, he returned to his native Croatia, which had become part of the newly established Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes. Upon his return, he joined the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (CPY). However, a state ban was instituted against communist activities, causing him to go underground, where he rose in the ranks and revived the influence of the CPY. In August 1928, authorities ultimately arrested him and sentenced him…

a unique history, and is rich with culture. Croatia has a very interesting history, its three independences. First independence was, from the Rome Empire, second independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the last independence was from Yugoslavia. First, the country…

communism?” I chose this question because this event largely determined the path that Yugoslavia would follow and develop. However, this question was also very important during that period of time because this conflict of two communist leaders had caused a lot of turmoil in the context…

”(BrainyQuote.com , Allyson Schwartz, (n.d.), #1) The Bosnian Genocide had many causes that led up to it starting in 1992 when Bosnia and Herzegovina declared independence from Yugoslavia. The Bosnian Genocide occurred because of Serbian leader, Slobodan Milosevic, the province of Serbia did not want the nation of Yugoslavia to break apart, and there were also religious tensions between the nations. Serbian leader, Slobodan Milosevic was a long time Communist and believed in radical Serbian…

to power. Previously a communist, Milošević began harnessing the regions nationalism and religious hatred citing the aim of a ‘Greater Serbia’. Tensions between Serbs and Muslims became inflamed in areas such as Kosovo, an independent province. Yugoslavia became further divided as Serbs felt even as the country’s largest ethnic group, their needs weren’t being met. Proving difficult to establish a government, the new constitution failed to form a multiparty leadership as political aims were…