Karadzic's Affect On The Rise Of Nationalism In Serbia

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The rise of nationalism and antagonism in Serbian people felt that they had the right to a single country and feared that the other ethnic groups would exterminate them. When the fall of Yugoslavia happened, the Serbian politicians knew they needed to stir up fear and victimization to hide their real aim build a more significant Serbia. This aggressive Serbian nationalism broke the final thread that was holding Yugoslavia's nations in an arrangement. According to Vesna Pesci's report on Serbian Nationalism, "the creation of a Yugoslav state that reflected Serbian and interest Croatian fostered the idea of a Yugoslav state". The meaning for Yugoslav state was create a platform and redefinition the Serbian and Croatian image. Some of these platforms …show more content…
Even as the report of killing campaigns was broadcast through the radio, Bosnians found ways to tell themselves it didn’t apply to them. For they believed that Yugoslavia would never turn on Bosnia, “We have been living together for years"(Power 2002, p.285). To the Serbs, it was good versus evil, a "greater Serbia" ideology. Radovan Karadzic was very involved with genocide by creating policies that deliberately used fear and terror in the civilian population; Assertion has been made of Karadzic's direct, personality in acts of violence and torture including claims that he "participated in and witnessed tortures at various concentration camp"(Dekleva &Post 1997, p.486). Karadzic tried to represent the golden age-old Serb nationalist in the modern era of Bosnia, through being cunning and compromise made him look more sane and rational. However, behind closed doors, he remained a 'powerful and evil man’ with the ability to fuse the features of a genocide perpetrator with those of a charismatic, narcissistic leader (Dekleva &Post 1997,

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