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The Yugoslavian Conflict - Online Term Paper

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 east were
controlled by the Ottoman Empire. This had extreme effects on the ethnic,
cultural and economic differences between the two sides. The three major
religions in Yugoslavia were Greek Orthodox, Christianity, Roman ...

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be considered the same one. For example
Serbian and Croatian are so similar that government policy was to promote
through the educational system the idea of a single Serbo-Croatian language.
However both the Serbians and the Croatians challenged this idea and went
through great pains to identify vocabulary that would highlight the differences
rather than the similarities.

War finally broke out in Yugoslavia on June 25 1991, when Slovenia and
Croatia proclaimed their independence and sovereignty, suspending the
constitution of Yugoslavia and federal legislation on their territories. The
first thing that Slovenian state did was to take over control of their borders,
removing Yugoslavian border posts and replaced them with Slovenia Republic
posts. Federal authorities responded to this challenge by proclaiming the
Slovenian acts illegal and charging that in the Republic of Slovenia some
federal functions, notably customs services and air traffic control, had been
forcibly ...

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The
Yugoslavian National Army (JNA) openly sided with the Serbian rebels, the
Croatians used this opportunity to start an all out anti-JNA campaign. The JNA
responded by saying that it took orders from the Presidency of Yugoslavia, not
from Tudjman, the Croatian leader, and that it was constitutionally obliged to
protect the integrity of the country and to preserve peace when it was
endangered. Tudjman put all army units in Croatia on highest alert and ordered
to shoot back if shot at. The fighting began in August 1991. After four and a
half months of fighting the United Nations negotiated a precarious cease-fire,
after fourteen previous failing attempts. Although Croatia was ...

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Added: 4/13/2006 01:19:17 PM
Category: World History
Type: Premium Paper
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