Serbia

Body:MILO Milošević was “the former president of Serbia and Yugoslavia”, “he was responsible for the politics that resulted in more than two hundred thousand dead.” It is hard for all of us to believe that a man so evil became president but it is not hard to realize why he was in that position in the first place. Milošević had legal-rational authority, that is what made him so powerful at the time. To me, the way Milošević obtained his authority characterizes him as a calculated oppurtunist who…

of Croatia. The actual name of Croatia is the Republika Harvatska. Croatia is 21,831 square miles (Croatia) and is located in the Balken peninsula bordering the Adriatic Sea. The countries that border Croatia are Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Serbia, Montenegro and Slovenia. Croatia is an interesting country with 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…

Europe. The Historic Macedonia was governed by the Roman Empire, by the Byzantine Empire, and by Turkey. In 1878, the Treaty of Stefano granted possession of the largest part of Macedonia to Bulgaria. However, Bulgaria was defeated by the Greece and Serbia in the Second Balkan War of 1913 and as a result, possession over a large portion of Macedonia was transferred to the Greeks and Serbs. On September 8, 1991, Macedonia finally achieved its independence and, in 1993, became a member of the…

This set a precedent of allowing parts of countries to secede because of government unrest in the country of Serbia where Yugoslavia and Serbia were at war for ethnic tension between both, and Kosovo tried to leave to escape damage. There needs to be a just reason for secession from a country, or could undermine both sides on the issues so everyone involved is hurt in a way…

met due to NATO bombing Serbia in an effort to force Milosevic out of power. Although humanitarian intervention was not avoided, the Russian government still declared it was their responsibility to protect the sovereignty of the people. This was accomplished through the use of a UN world leader summit, under the agreement that Boris Yeltsin would attend. Ultimately the summit lead to controversial decisions and in the end resulted in the demise of Milosevic’s tyranny in Serbia and a needed…

Mabel St Clair Stobart, founder of the Women's Sick & Wounded Convoy, which saw service in Serbia and Bulgaria in 1912 during the 1st Balkans War. At the outbreak of the First World War, Sandes volunteered to be a nurse but was rejected as she was not fully qualified, but ended up joining a St. John Ambulance unit raised by American nurse Mabel Grouitch, and on the 12th of August in 1914 left England for Serbia with 36 other women to help the humanitarian crisis there. While there Sandes joined…

about 100,000. The Bosnia Genocide refers to a genocide at Srebrenica and Žepa committed by Bosnian Serb forces in 1995. Far from seeking independence for Bosnia, Bosnian Serbs wanted to be part of a dominant Serbian state in the Balkans–the “Greater Serbia” that Serbian separatists had long envisioned, By the summer of 1995, three towns in eastern Bosnia–Srebrenica, Zepa and Gorazde–remained under control of the Bosnian government. The U.N. had declared these enclaves “safe havens” in 1993, to…

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…

Between the years of 1992 and 1995, Serbia and Croatia invaded Bosnia in hopes to take over, and split all Bosnian territory. This occurred after the European committee declared Bosnia an independent state. Religious tensions were also a contributing factor in the war being started. This was the worst act of genocide since the Holocaust. In April of 1992, The European community recognized Bosnia as it’s own country. This upset the Serbs because they opposed the creation of a Bosnian state…

This place, where I grew up, learned about the world, experienced my first feelings and where I gained the experiences that will be beneficial for the rest of my life. This place is a small town in my home country in Serbia; it’s called Cuprija. It is a place where I lived the first sixteen years of my life; went to kindergarten, middle school and the first year of high school. Cuprija can be beautiful in some ways, but it is mostly perceived as a ‘negative’ and a ‘bad’ town because of all the…