Bosnia and Herzegovina

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…

Even as the report of killing campaigns was broadcast through the radio, Bosnians found ways to tell themselves it didn’t apply to them. For they believed that Yugoslavia would never turn on Bosnia, “We have been living together for years"(Power 2002, p.285). To the Serbs, it was good versus evil, a "greater Serbia" ideology. Radovan Karadzic was very involved with genocide by creating policies that deliberately used fear and terror in the civilian…

The Western Front The Western Front is a labyrinth of trenches which were used for the protection of soldiers during World War I. It is located down the coasts of France and Belgium and trails 740 km to the Swiss border. Out of the many countries involved, the first few that joined the Western Front included Serbia, Russia, France, Belgium and the British Empire all of which fought against the Ottoman Empire, Germany and Austria-Hungary. One of the main causes of the First World War was due to…

Imperial, territorial, and economic rivalries led to the "Great War" between the Central Powers (Austria-Hungary, Germany, Bulgaria, and Turkey) and the Allies (U.S., Britain, France, Russia, Belgium, Serbia, Greece, Romania, Montenegro, Portugal, Italy, and Japan). About 10 million combatants killed, 20 million wounded. Austrian Archduke Francis Ferdinand and wife assassinated in Sarajevo by Serbian nationalist, Gavrilo Princip (June 28). Austria declares war on Serbia (July 28). Germany…

empire, and if Pan-Slavism gained enough momentum, soon the nationalities within Austria-Hungary could begin to push for independence, effectively dissolving their Empire. This Slav nationalism grew especially following Austria 's annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, where Serbia and their ally Russia were forced to back down. Many leading officials feared Serbia because of this, and within the Austrian government, there was great pressure to go to war with Serbia to eliminate the threat. The…

June 28th, 1914 On June 28th, 1914 Archduke Franz Ferdinand was travelling in Sarejevo, Bosnia to observe the imperial armed forces in Bosnia and Herzegovina. While touring the city a Serbian extremist named Gravrilo Princip killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife. The killing of Archduke Franz Ferdinand set off a chain of events that would lead to the beginning of World War 1 July 28th, 1914 Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia because Ferdinand was killed by a Serbian man August 1st,…

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…

“What commonalities are seen in genocide we have studied”? The commonality I have seen in genocide that they all have a common goal, which is to eliminate the race or races that are believed to be inferior. Examples of past genocides are the Holocaust, Rwandan, Cambodian, and Bosnian. However, for genocide to occur eight steps must proceed according to Gregory H. Stanton. Subsequently, genocides do not happen in a day; they take months if not years to prepare for a mass killing to eventually…

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…

first declaration of war on Serbia by Austria-Hungary, and the joining by Italy, Germany, Russia, France, Britain and their respective allies. The assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand by Gavrilo Princip took place in a visit to Sarajevo, Bosnia in June 28, 1914 under the leadership of the Serbian Nationalist movement. The assassination group “The Black Hand”, composed…