Yugoslavia Civil War?
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The war in Yugoslavia first broke out...\nIn Slovenia on 26th 1991 (but only lasted for ten days, and I think they was only four casulties)\nThe so-called Plitvice Bloody Easter in late March 1991 was one first incidences that led to the war in Croatia. Fighting between Serbs and Croatians started on June 27th 1991 in Croatia. On December 19 Rebel Serbs declare independence in Krajina region of Croatia. \n\nIn Bosnia armed conflict took place from 6 April 1992 after Bosnian Independence was declared to 14 September 1995.\nThe first casualty in Bosnia is a point of contention between Serbs and Bosniaks. Serbs claim this was Nikola Gardovic, a groom's father who was killed at a Serb wedding procession on the first day of the referendum, on February 29, 1992 in Sarajevo's old town Bašcaršija. Bosniaks meanwhile consider the first casualty of the war to be Suada Dilberovic, who was shot during a peace march by unidentified gunmen on April 5.\n\n\n\nOK I think you want to know why too...\n\nTo answer this you must first know a little about the history of Yugoslavia.... \n\nYugoslavia only came into existence after world war 2.\nBefore that roughly the same area was called the kingdom of the Serbs, Slovenes and Croats. This only existed after the first world war.\nBefore that Serbia and Croatia, and Bosnia etc had separate histories and cultural influences. Serbia was under the Ottoman empire whilst Croatia was under the Austro-Hungarian.\nSome people say that Yugoslavia only stayed together because of Tito's firm grip. Tito died in 1980. In the 1980's Yugoslavia economy first started showing the signs of strain that had already existed but were hidden well by Tito's position in the world, and Yugoslavia prestige of not being neither West or East.\nThis was the time when nationalist tensions first became to show (they had appeared before but were dealt with efficiently by Tito -- both Tudjman and Izabegovic 1st presidents of modern Croatia and Bosnia respectively had spent time in prison for nationalism)\nBy the times of the late 80's , Yugoslavia was ready to fall apart... \nNationalism was everywhere..\nIn Serbia started by a nationalist memorandum in 1986 by intellectuals... \nBy 1989 (a then new) Milosevic had removed autonomy from Kosovo and Vojvodina...\nThrough out Europe communism was falling, and people were wanting changes of government.\nSlovenia first wanted indepence. Partly because it was the richest province in Yugoslavia and was sick of seeing it's money spent on poorer areas. Partly because it was wanted to be more democratic and was worried by Milosevic's pro Serb, and neo communistic tendencies....\n\nSo when Slovenia declared indepence it was impossible for Croatia not to as well... Croatia had a strong natioanlist history lead by it's leader Tudjman. And wanted to regain 1000 years of Croatian history.\nIf Slovenia and Croatia were both accepted as independent by the EU , which they were..\nIt was impossble for Bosnia to stay in Yugoslavia...\n\nBUT.. \n\nThey were many Serbs who lived in all areas of the former Yugoslavia especially  Croatia and Bosnia...\nThey did not want to leave Yugoslavia, and wanted to stay with Serbia...\nThey were also scared of nationalism in Croatia because during the second world many Croats were supporter of the Ustasa who were supporters of Hitler. The ustasa had massacered many Serbs in death camps such as Jasenovic.\nSome modern Croats were sympathisers with the Ustase and some of the decisions made by Tudjman gave Serbs a reason to fear living in an Independent Croatia.....\nWhilst in Bosnia alot of nationalist propganda brought to the forefront a hate of Islam, and of the Ottoman past..\n\nThis is why the civil war happened....\nOf course now relations are much better between all countries and current politicans are trying to make ammends for the past and build a future.
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You can't really get an objective answer to this question...it is very complicated. The war came in 1990s - in fact from 1992 to 1995, and there were three sides - Serbs, Bosnian Muslims (Bosniaks), and Croats. We all used to live in one country - Yugoslavia, however Croats, Slvenians, Macedonians and Bosnian Muslims wanted to get independence. Serbs have always wanted to stay in one country with their neighbours (even today many of them want so). Slovenia and Macedonia menaged to get independence without a war, so war is related mostly to the territories of Bosnia and Croatia. One part of Bosnia (today known as the Serb Republic - or Republic of Srpska) have always wanted to stay a part of Yugoslavia. Serb Republic exists today only as a part of Bosnia and it makes 49% of territory of Bosnia - most people still support Serbia in everything- from politics to soccer games against Bosnia. It seems that Serb Republic will never get independence although at least 85% of people living there want so, nor will they be allowed to join Serbia. That's mainly because of the negative image Serbs have in  Western Europe and U.S. (especially because of the Srebrenica masacr where a lot of Muslims were killed by the Serbs). Serbs are often portrayed as a bad guys, but I hope that image will change because each side has had losts, and thousands of Serbs were killed in Croatia and many became refugees. Generalizations are wrong.\nCroatia is today Western oriented country in development, more than 90% of population are Croats, Bosnia has around 45% of muslims and 34% of Serbs, and 17% of Croats.\nOne important thing is religion: Croats are Catholics, Serbs are Orthodox Christians (Russian Christianity) and Bosniaks are Muslims. Today, for some people everything's normal, others will never stop distinguishing who is who (our names are different and it's pretty easy to figure out our origins).\nIn my opinion, Slobodan Milosevic is neither better nor worse than Muslims' and Croats' leaders of that time. Hovewer, those two guys had luck to die before being called criminals. Finaly, everybody's inocent until proven otherwise.\nAnyway, don't think about Serbs only in the terms of war, and fight with neighbours. I'm a Serb, I have been there during the war, I still remember some horrible scenes, but I don't hate anybody. My best friend there was a Muslim girl, and here, in U.S. I spend most of the time with Croats. We are all humans. \nMontenegro is another story, they will get independence, but we have never in history been in war with Montenegro- it's only politics and their wish to enter the E.U. (Serbia is blaimed for protecting the war criminals) and they don't want to be blaimed for some things Serbia is blaimed. Montengro is a really small country, full of rocks and unused land, the only good thing is sea and Adriatic coast. It's beautiful. \nBy the way, you can call it Croatian, Bosnian, Serbian., Montenegrin or even Serbo-Croatian, but, in general, we all speak ONE language and understand each other.\n\nWe are free to travel from one of these new countries to another without a visa. Soccer games are still full of tensions, but it's becoming better...:)))))))))
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The causes is over simplified as tangle of allainces and the breakway republic of Serbia was the powder keg. As soon as Arcduke Ferdinand was assasinated Austria-Hungary went on to mobolize against Serbia. This could have just resulted in a war between Austria-Hungary and Serbia, but Russia had to protect its Slavic neighbors. Since there were Slavs in Russia it was good policy to protect another Slavic country. Germany didn't have to honor it's treaty obligations to Austria-Hungary, but it did. The Germans were not expecting war. Since, Germany was mobolizing and it's ally Russia was under threat France had no choice,but to call up its armed forces too. Two other great powers still sat out because they did not think a world war was possible. The Ottoman Empire and the British Empire were on the sidelines in August 1914. Britian was a sea based empire and if Europe went to war Britian would too, because it had to prtotect is worldwide colonies. It was important for the British to keep the supply lines to the home islands and to the colony of India. The Ottoman's had no choice either because Russian forces border them and could close access to their sea routes. The British were in North Africa and that was also was seen as a threat. Theses countries had high nationalism, which propelled them to war and the citizens of all theses nations beleived their country was invincible. Another problem was ethniciy because the Austrian-Hungarians viewed the Slavs as second class citizens. By Austria giving Serbia and ulitmatum started WWI off and there was no turning back.
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very unstable.\n\nUS CIA intervention in the 50s and 60s.\n\nlots of civil war.
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It would become a civil war if any of the ethnic group decided en mass to secede from Iraq, or try and take over. right now, aside from the "insurgent attacks", none of the groups has walked away from the central government.
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No.  The best description of "Yugoslavia" is "That part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire which did not speak either German or Hungarian".  In other words, everything else, which was a group of Slavic languages and a bit of Albanian.\n\nEDIT:  Skb, how can you disagree with me?  You said EXACTLY the same thing I did, "Yugoslavia never had a common language, it was a pot of several different languages".  LOL.  I guess you never heard of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and don't know the history of the region before and just after World War I, so in that case, you may not understand my comment on the matter.
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Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia, Macedonia, and the remaining rump of Yugoslavia which is the federation made up of Serbia and Montenegro.\n\nAnd Pottsylvania.
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Yes....it has started to turn into a civil war. To your why......because shia and sunni are two Muslim groups who have been turned against each other . Where there is fuel it is easy to turn it into fire. So there are a lot of people who are exploiting this situation.
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Eeee Bila Jednom...\nToo bad because doesn't exist anymore.\nFor sure it was better under DRUG TITO than any other president.\nHe did impossible thing who can keep so many ethnic group and so many religion at one terrtory and to every1 be hppy and satisfied.\nand about future who knows, you will never know what will happen in Balkan tomorrow, for 1 year, for 10 years?\nFuture of Balkan is unpredictable.\nAnyway it was the greatest country ever.
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You need to get you're facts right mate. The Turkish Army invaded the north AFTER the Greek army had invaded the South, there are two sides to every story, dont just believe what you hear from the South, and also North Cyprus, or TRNC as its called, is not recognised by most of the world, so now matter how much you dont like the newspaper you couldnt close it down even if you tried
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At the outbreak of World War I, the writer Thomas Mann wrote, "Is not peace an element of civil corruption and war a purification, a liberation, an enormous hope?"\n\nThe bloodiest of all wars fought last century which ended up in an atomic explosion in Japan, caused much destructions in all continents except the Americas is actually World War 2. Was it Allied crusaders against German Jihadists?\nThe scandalous war that Americans fought in Vietnam, was it a crusade against Buddhism?\nThe Russian invasion of Afghanistan in the 80s, a poor country with 75% illiteracy rate cannot be religious since the Soviets had no official religion.\nthe Falkland Wars were fought by the British to, what , uproot the Catholics of Argentina?\n\nI think we can all conclude that most wars in the industrial and modern era are not based on religion. I suggest you google it and read about these:\n    * American Civil War\n    * Arab-Israeli Wars\n    * Franco-Prussian War\n    * Iran-Iraq War\n    * Korean War\n    * Russo-Japanese War\n    * Vietnam War\n    * World War I\n    * World War II\n\nIndeed we could actually enlighten ourselves to the origins of conflict and come to a conclusion whether hatred is the real cause or a mere instrument employed in the act of war.
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It was a knock on affect. If one country on one side went to war with one on the other they would ALL go to war. Sebian nationalist kills Austro-Hungarian Prince, AustroHungary demands nationalist. Serbia refuses to hand him over, Austria Hungary declares war on Serbia, so Serbia's ally Russia declared war on Austria Hungary so AustriaHungary's ally Germany declares war on Russia so Russia's ally France declares war on Germany and England joins in coz they'd finished their Splendid Isolation and didn't wanna be left out and declred war on Germany. So the Alliance(Germany&co) and the Entente(France &co.) were at War-WW1!
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Yugoslavia was always an artifical country made up of a number of very different ethnic and religious states, and was only kept unified under a communist regime and a very charismatic leader, Marshall Tito.\n\nIt was the only communist state that kind of worked, because Tito actually embraced western culture and values as well as the values of communism.\n\nWhen he died however, and eastern communism started to collaspe all of the ethnic regions grabbed the opportunity to regain independance....and as we have seen settle old scores with their neighbours.
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I think you mean Angola, because UNITA was using the diamonds and the government was using oil to fund the civil war. Now that it is over, though, it seems no one has any money now, it is all just being syphoned out of the country.
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Guns N Roses - Civil War
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LET THEM SORT IT OUT..\n\nAMERICA HAD A CIVIL WAR..\n\nMANY COUNTRIES HAVE...\n\nTHEIR RELIGION-THEIR PEOPLE-LET THEM SETTLE ALLAH AND SUCH.
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The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes was formed in 1918; its name was changed to Yugoslavia in 1929. Occupation by Nazi Germany in 1941 was resisted by various paramilitary bands that fought each other as well as the invaders. The group headed by Josip TITO took full control of Yugoslavia upon German expulsion in 1945. Although Communist, his new government and its successors (he died in 1980) managed to steer their own path between the Warsaw Pact nations and the West for the next four and a half decades. In the early 1990s, post-TITO Yugoslavia began to unravel along ethnic lines: Slovenia, Croatia, Macedonia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina were recognized as independent states in 1992. The remaining republics of Serbia and Montenegro declared a new "Federal Republic of Yugoslavia" (FRY) in April 1992 and, under President Slobodan MILOSEVIC, Serbia led various military intervention efforts to unite ethnic Serbs in neighboring republics into a "Greater Serbia." These actions led to Yugoslavia being ousted from the UN in 1992, but Serbia continued its campaign until signing the Dayton Peace Accords in 1995. In 1998-99, massive expulsions by FRY forces and Serb paramilitaries of ethnic Albanians living in Kosovo provoked an international response, including the NATO bombing of Belgrade and the stationing of a NATO-led force (KFOR), in Kosovo. Federal elections in the fall of 2000, brought about the ouster of MILOSEVIC and installed Vojislav KOSTUNICA as president. The arrest of MILOSEVIC in 2001 allowed for his subsequent transfer to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague to be tried for crimes against humanity. In 2001, the country's suspension from the UN was lifted, and it was once more accepted into UN organizations under the name of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Kosovo has been governed by the UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) since June 1999, under the authority of UN Security Council Resolution 1244, pending a determination by the international community of its future status. In 2002, the Serbian and Montenegrin components of Yugoslavia began negotiations to forge a looser relationship. In February 2003 lawmakers restructured the country into a loose federation of two republics called Serbia and Montenegro. The Constitutional Charter of Serbia and Montenegro includes a provision that allows either republic to hold a referendum after three years that would allow for their independence from the state union. In 2003 Svetozar MAROVIC was elected president of Serbia and Montenegro. \n\n### LINKS : -\n\nhttp://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/yi.html\n\nhttp://www.answers.com/topic/serbia-and-montenegro\n\nhttp://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0108157.html