ethnic differences. Yugoslavia had always been made up of rival ethnic and cultural groups. Historically made up of Catholic Croats‚ Orthodox Serbs‚ and Muslim Bosniaks. In addition to cultural and religious differences‚ the area is strategic in accessing the Mediterranean‚ and has always been a flashpoint between the Ottoman Empire and the Hapsburg Empire. They were united for a time after World War One and the Kingdom of the Croats‚ Serbs‚ and Slovenes was renamed Yugoslavia. German occupation
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The Yugoslavian Conflict Yugoslavia is a country burdened by feuding sides in a war that cannot soon be resolved. The United Nations are attempting to help the situation‚ but until the people of Yugoslavia can come to an agreement continued warfare and heartache is inevitable. The problems in Yugoslavia began because the country is separated into two distinct parts. The north and west parts of the country were once under the rule of the Austro-Hungarian Empire‚ and the south and the
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West Balkans where Yugoslavia might be an excellent example. It is a former federation of mainly Slavonic states in South- East Europe. The country was formed as the Kingdom of Serbs‚ Croats‚ and Slovenes after the First World War. It comprised Serbia‚ Montenegro‚ and the former South Slavonic provinces of the Austro-Hungarian empire and assumed the name of Yugoslavia in 1929. Its capital was Belgrade. Invaded by the
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Ethnic Religion Cleansing/Genocide (Bosnia) In 1991Political upheavals in the Balkans displaced 2.700.000 people by mid-1992 of which over 700.000 of them sought asylum in other European countries.Methods used during the Bosnian ethnic cleansing campaigns were including murder‚ torture‚ extra-judicial executions‚ rape and many other ways sometimes you cant even imagine that something like that can be done to a human being. Since the war stopped in July 1995 things started to get better. People
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people. The genocide occurred between 1992 and 1995. The Social Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was made up of six nations under the leadership of Josip Broz Tito. Once Tito passed away in 1990‚ there was a power vacuum‚ and politicians began a nationalistic campaign pitting Serbs‚ Croats and Bosniaks against each other. Hence‚ the beginning of an “ethnic cleansing” war (Campbell‚ 2003 p.511). Once Milosevic was the President of Republic of Serbia‚ he encouraged formation of violent uprisings by Serb
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is one of the countries that emerged from the break-up of Yugoslavia. Yugoslavia became a multicultural country after WW1. Yugoslavia was defeated by the Western Allies. During WW2‚ Yugoslavia was invaded by Nazi Germany and was divided. Tito was a communist. He was a strong leader who maintained ties with the Soviet Union and the United States during the Cold War. After Tito died in 1980 and without his strong leadership‚ Yugoslavia plunged into political and economic chaos. A new leader
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well as how they are being financed. In addition to this‚ certain elements of the specific clothing style that this youth culture possesses for the sake of recognition and appearance will also be mentioned. Furthermore‚ by taking the war in Former Yugoslavia of the 1990’s as the focal point‚ certain causes and motives will be uncovered as to determine the degree of nationalistic‚ racist‚ and religious roots in the formation of the hooligan youth. The paper will include a majority of the activities that
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a democratic‚ parliamentary republic with three branches of government: the legislative‚ judicial‚ and executive. All of those branches suffered productivity decrease in the period of current global crisis but the law system was badly structured from the whole beginning. In 1991‚ after the favorable referendum on accession from Yugoslavia on June 25‚ 1991‚ Slovene assembly has enacted the Basic Constitutional Charter on the Sovereignty and Independence of the Republic of Slovenia which became the
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Discuss and Analyze the similarities and differences between the genocide committed in Rwanda and Yugoslavia in the 1990s. The Rwandan and Bosnian Genocides were more similar than different due to the fact that both were supported by the governing force at the time‚ and both were ignited due to past tensions between two separate ethnicities. The Rwandan and Bosnian Genocides were similar in the fact that both were supported by the ruling force at the time. The Rwandan Genocide‚ was organized
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Extradition/Deportation Bosnia-Herzegovina‚ formally known as Yugoslavia‚ has been addressing many pressing issues; however‚ extradition and deportation has been gaining large amounts of attention from Bosnia-Herzegovina’s government. Bosnia-Herzegovina’s government consists of a tripartite presidency which is divided mainly between Croatian‚ Serb‚ and Bosnian political parties. During World War II‚ the Kingdom of Yugoslavia resisted the Axis powers and were overrun. The attacking axis forces:
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