HIS242H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Srebrenica Massacre, Rwandan Genocide, International Criminal Tribunal For The Former Yugoslavia
16 Apr 2016
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The events considered today are within living memory of most adults and very well documented. After wwii bosnia, serbia, macedonia, slovenia, croatia six regions uniied to form federal republic of yugoslavia: composed of several groups. Long history of tensions in this region: croats cooperated with nazi germany and killed thousands of serbs and jews. After tito"s death in 1980 collective presidency rotated every year between the six regions. Situation was completed by the fact that yugoslavia"s diferent regions had developed unevenly. Violence began in 1991 when military and paramilitary units moved into. Croatia to secure territory for orthodox serbs: deported 40,000 non-serbs (1/3 of croatia) extremely violence accompanied (torture, shooting, rape) September 1991 (next month) republic of macedonia declared its independence did not have resistance from yugoslav authorities (only one to do so) The young state of bosnia was reduced to series of landlocked pockets of. Muslim left in these areas fell to ethnic cleansing.
