From the 1990s to 1995 in Southeastern Europe, specifically those states in the Western Balkans fought in a war between their fellow bordering states. The conflict began due to Bosnia’s interracial mixture of people specifically in relation to Bosnian Muslims, Serbs, and Croats. The war was mainly between Serbians, Croatians, and Bosnians as the Serbian motives to participate in the war were focused around ethnic differences. This investigation will determine the extent to which Serbia’s involvement in the Bosnian War was due to religious reasons through the research question: “To what extent was Serbia’s involvement in the Bosnian war from 1990 to 1995 due to religious causes?”
Before the 1918 unification of the Yugoslavian region there were
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Under Ottoman rule Yugoslavia was a multi-religious country. People coexisted with each other for centuries living peacefully with one another and were able to carry out regular life. The three major religions recognized in Yugoslavia were Islamic, Serbian Orthodox, and Roman Catholic. There were three main republics in Yugoslavia; Slovenia, Croatia, and Bosnia-Herzegovina. The three different republics in the region of Yugoslavia is what allowed for such ethnic diversity. Each religion was specific to one area of religious practice but all people could practice any one the religions in any location. The diversity and the freedom to practice religion played a large role in the start of the war. With diversity among people it gave opportunity, it allowed for new development and gave possibility for the power structure to shift into the hands of another ethnicity. With the fall of Yugoslavia in 1992 the three republics became recognized as states by the European Union in 1992. Slovenia and Croatia in January and Bosnia-Herzegovina in April. This was the beginning of the start to the Bosnian …show more content…
The idea of an “ethnic cleansing” was developed in hopes that it would create fear for those included in the process. It was virtually used as a way to intimidate those preparing to go against the aggressors and in that process, “villages were terrorized, looted, and often razed to prevent their inhabitants from returning.” The “ethnic cleansing” conducted by the majority of Serbians within the government not only massacred hundreds of thousands of people, but they also made it nearly impossible for any survivors to return to a home or any other location for that matter. The war caused mass destruction throughout the region. The lack of locations for those who survived attacks were left desolate and due to the lack of resources remaining in the cities it was very difficult for people to get what they needed. Because of the need that the Serbians had to conduct and “ethnic cleansing” many people were abandoned by the deaths of their families, children became orphaned, and the possible opportunities for those who were caught in the war largely
Bosnia had been part of Austria-Hungary since 1908 but it was claimed by neighboring Serbia. Austria-Hungary blamed Serbia for the assassination and on July 28th declared war. What began as the third Balkan war turned into a European war in two years? On August 4th Germany invaded neutral Belgium on its way to France it intended to knock France out of the war before turning its attention to Russia. Britain had guanteed to defend Belgium’s neutral zone and it declared war on Germany. The Great War had begun” (WWI Book
Nationalism has been a potent force for change since the development of human civilization. However, opinion about the extent to which nationalism may be appropriately pursued is highly diverse, a factor that has led to immense tragedy and suffering in countless regions worldwide. While it is both appropriate and sometimes encouraged to take pride in being part of a nation, it is of the utmost importance that it is done without harming or subjugating people of another. Uniting a people by force and potentially eliminating or destroying those who may oppose it or not belong to it is unacceptable ethically, morally, and socially.
opposed to those who saw themselves as Bosnian Serbs or Bosnian Croats. These nations were members of Yugoslavia, later to become the independent states of Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Macedonia and Serbia. The participants were all members of the Yugoslav state and gained recognition as states later, after its. collapse. Then the sand is broken.
Bosnia is one of several small countries that emerged from the break-up of Yugoslavia, a multicultural country created after World War I by the Western Allies. Yugoslavia was composed of ethnic and religious groups that had been historical rivals, even bitter enemies, including the Serbs (Orthodox Christians), Croats (Catholics) and ethnic Albanians (Muslims).
Yugoslavia was a very diverse, ethnic, and peaceful place under communist rule ("Genocide in Bosnia--1992-1995"). For 40 years it stayed this way ("Genocide in Bosnia--1992-1995"). Provinces declared...
Yugoslavia came to be because of a group of people wanted their own nation, and worked out as the Allies of Britain wondered what could come of dominating the Austro-Hungarians. The beginning of Yugoslavia is well known, but why did the country fall apart completely? As stated in the thesis, there was always a sense of nationality and diversity between the republics of the nation. The six never came together as one nation, and if there would have, many of Yugoslavia 's conflicts would have ceased to happen.
- Review of reasons why there was a split between the Serbs, Croats and Muslins.
The Rwandan Genocide was a terrible event in history caused by a constantly weakening relationship between two groups of people. The country of Rwanda is located in Africa and consists of multiple groups of people. Majority of Rwanda is Hutu, while a smaller amount of people are Tutsis. The genocide started due to multiple events that really stretched the relationship between the two groups to its end. One of the starting factors was at the end of World War 1. Rwanda was a German colony but then was given to Belgium “who favored the minority Tutsis over the Hutus, exacerbated[exacerbating] the tendency of the few to oppress the many”(History.com). This created a feeling of anger towards the Tutsis, because they had much more power then Hutus.
It was created out of the Austria-Hungary empire that lost the war and lost its land. Serbians, Croatians, Slovenes, and Bosnians and Muslims lived all in one country. The problem was the people didn't get along and each republic wanted to take control of the country. This went on until after WWII, when the Soviet Union took power and control over the country. Joseph Broz (Tito) was leader of Yugoslavia until the 6 republics separated.
Why It Proved to be Impossible to Solve the Problems Created by Balkan Nationalism Before 1914 Balkan nationalism was apparent in the years leading up to 1914 in two forms: The desire for expansion, or rather, self-determination, within the immediate region, and also in the support of Pan-Slav nationalism (a Russian idea). In the years from 1900 to 1914, this nationalism caused the key problems of mistrust and suspicion between the two great powers of Austria Hungary and Russia, who’s conflicting national interests concerning the Balkan states arose from mutual distrust and desire to gain influence in the area and brought to the surface the conflicting national interests of the two countries within the region. The reasons it why it proved impossible to solve these aforementioned issues and soothe the tensions will be the focus of this essay. The Bosnian crisis of 1908 resulted form the annexation of the Balkan provinces of Bosnia-Herzegovina by Austria Hungary.
G. Hossein. “Legitimacy, Religion, and Nationalism in the Middle East.” The American Political Science Review, Volume 84, Issue 1 (1990. 3), 69-91.
... that other republics felt to the need to be the same so that they did not become disadvantaged. Exaggeration was an integral part of the huge amounts of propaganda being beamed at the common people, all in an attempt to imbue them with the nationalist ideologies (Rogel 45). The Serb death count at Jasenovac was a wildly varying number, grossly overinflated by the Serbs and downplayed by the Croats. The Serbs even asserted that the Bosnia was just an administrative creation of Tito, designed to thwart the rights of the Serbs (Rogel 43). The Croats countered that the whole Yugoslav system under the communists had been run for the benefit of the Serbs, and Croatia had borne the economic brunt of it. All of this propaganda was disseminated in order to make the common get people feeling anxious enough that they felt it was necessary to take up arms to defend themselves.
The outbreak of nationalism caused the war in Croatia because, a calamity appeared in which weakened Yugoslavia near the end of the Cold war in the mid 1980s. This led to the inimitable demise of Yugoslavia. When Croatia looked to be an independent outside of Yugoslavia nationalist started to develop ideas while still in the midst of Communists. It become more evident that Yugoslavia would soon become independent states.
As a conclusion, Rwanda and Bosnia genocide was about ethnic conflicts for gaining power or for land, mass murders, area destructions, civilians deaths, hiding evidence and many more. Also genocide has different stages to categories its specification such as classification, symbolisms, discrimination, dehumanization, extermination, preparation and many more. As the end of genocide there were deaths of some ethnic groups too which are hardly found or known as minority groups. We should further inspire and encourage future world people to prevent such a tragedy like the Rwanda and Bosnia and other genocide conflict from ever happening again.
The Trebincevic family, and many others, experienced many violations of human rights during the ethnic and cultural cleansing taking place at the time. A few examples of these violations would be: curfews, forced relocations, rape, castration, imprisonment in concentration camps, and killings. Much like Hitler’s plan to remove the Jews, during the war many of the Serbian soldiers goal was to eliminate and Bosniaks and Croatians from Serbian territory. The war in Bosnia claimed the lives of an estimated 100,000 people and displaced more than two million. In the largest massacre since the Holocaust in Europe, nearly 8,000 Bosniaks were killed in July of 1995 (“Bosnian