Slobodan Milošević

Contemporary society often makes snap decisions and wishful thinking predominates in the end. Nationalism did not escape the similar fate. During the history of humanity there were enough tragedies occurred due to this ideology. Therefore, people are accustomed to assume this is something virulent. The purpose of Gustavo de las Casas, who wrote the article “Is Nationalism Good for You?”, was to refute this common believe and show nationalism can play a significant role to economic and hence…

On April 22, 1981 President Ronald Reagan made a statement in his proclamation, “ Like the genocide of the Armenians before it, and the genocide of the Cambodians which followed it, . . . the lessons of the Holocaust must never be forgotten (Reagan).” As a matter of fact it should never be forgotten, no genocide should be taken lightly. It takes a horrible, disgusting, and soulless person to carry out such mass extinction of an ethnic group or nation. Considering there were many genocides that…

speech closing in the words: No one should dare to beat you! Constantly broadcast on Serbian television, this speech propelled Milosevic to the forefront of the Serbian nationalist revival. He became president of Serbia in December 1987 and helped his associates to power in Vojvodina, Montenegro and Kosovo in late 1988. In early 1989 the Serbian parliament, under Milosevic, passed constitutional amendments reaffirming Serbian control over Kosovo. These were approved by Kosovo's frightened…

Justice has been dealt slowly and ineffectually. Leaders like General Ratko Mladic, the politician Slobodan Milosevic, and the psychiatrist-turned-radical-politician-and-designer-of-ethnic-cleansing-procedures Radovan Karadžić have been slowly tracked down, apprehended, and tried in court. Unfortunately, many Serbs were not given life sentences, and some were…

Slobodan Milosevic once said “the loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization.” Things Fall Apart protagonist, Okonkwo, and “I Lost My Talk” poet Rita Joe recognize this, which is why they do everything in their power to hold onto their identity and culture when missionaries come to colonize their land. Okonkwo and Joe hold onto their culture in the face of adversity. This is shown when each of their…

Ann Frank stated “If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews, instead of being doomed, will be held up as an example.” It was Ann Franks hope that Survivors of the holocaust would be able to become an example and advocate for peace because of the things that they went through. She hoped that the impact that the holocaust made on their lives would be lessened because of the care of others and that people would never forget what they went through.…

As we see time and again the rise and fall of Dictators ,Tyrants, leaders, and governments. From as early as the 1600s to modern day society we have seen how political leaders use various tactics in order to achieve their political agendas. They use different types of tactics such as media, rallies, speeches to send false messages to their people to persuade the people to follow them. This is called propaganda which is spreading the ideas based on biased or misleading nature to help promote or…

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…