It could be argued that while the Serbs were responsible for destroying Bosnia, the exploitation of the Croats harmed their Bosnian allies just as much as it helped them, resulting in the further seizing of land and resources and the spreading of the war into areas it otherwise would have passed over. However, the Bosnian government would likely have fallen completely without their assistance, as the Serbs marauding in the region were equipped, funded, and supplemented by troops from the…
This has resulted in civil wars and ethnic conflicts. One place where this has occurred is in Serbia. Serbia was one of the parts of the former Yugoslavia, which had once been a large Communist country. Yugoslavia was already beginning to separate into smaller states by the time that Slobodan Milosevic became president. Milosevic had plans to recombine some of the states under the leadership of Serbia, but the newly independent states had other ideas. The conflicts grew into a bloody civil war.…
In Bosnia, many Human Rights Violations are being experienced by citizens. The Bosnian police are supposed to be the source of protection for all citizens regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity, or anything. As a matter of fact, the police are supposed to take care of everybody and not refuse to or discriminate based off of a bias about their race, gender, etc. However, quite frequently they have failed to provide this service properly. The Bosnian Serb Wartime General, Ratko…
converted to Catholicism. As a result, Serbians after the war about 2/3 of the population was either displaced, or suffered from economic massive inflation resulting in a recession. Serbia had seen a lot of bloodshed during the World War II. Afterward, socialist party took power…
Every person in the world can say they have experienced a tragedy. Whether it big or small there are events in our lives that will never leave our everyday thought. There are people who we may never be able to find the strength to forgive for bringing pain upon us. Occasions in which challenge our minds to their breaking points. “The Bosnia List: A Memoir of War, Exile, and Return” by Kenan Trebincevic is an autobiography about his personal experience of surviving the ruthless war and ethnic…
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…
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…
There is an old expression about the sophisticated construction of Yugoslavia: “Yugoslavia consists of six republics, five nationalities, four languages, three religions, two alphabets, one political party, and only one “true” Yugoslav – the Josip Broz Tito”. He managed to unite the country and to free it from the foreign invaders, hereinafter becoming a leader of the Communist Party and a statesman, in whose hands all political power was concentrated. Therefore, the thesis of this paper is…
standing tensions between Serbs and Muslims and political and economic chaos which followed Tito’s death and Milosevic’s subsequent rise to power led to the genocide in Bosnia- Herzegovina. CAUSES In 1946, the People’s Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina became one of the basic republics of the Federal People’s. In the 1980s the rapid decline of the Yugoslav economy led to extensive public displeasure with the political system, together with the…
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 Tito’s rule. However, with the death of Tito in 1980, relations among the six republics of the SFRY deteriorated and this deterioration…