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The Destruction of Yugoslavia - Tracking the Break-up 1980-92 (Paperback)
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The Destruction of Yugoslavia - Tracking the Break-up 1980-92 (Paperback)
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The year 1992, scheduled to be a milestone on the road to European
unity, saw Sarajevo and other European cities bombarded slowly to
pieces and their inhabitants starved before the TV eyes of the
world. It saw two million Bosnian Muslims threatened with Europe's
first genocide since the Second World War; most of them already
driven from their homes by massacre, rape and terror. It saw
Bosnia's legal, multi-ethnic government treated as a mere "warring
party" and pressed to surrender by Western governments eager for
peace at any price. And it also saw a liberal and left opinion in
the West unable to offer any explanation for the continuing war
beyond variations on the racist notion of an innate propensity for
violence among the peoples of Yugoslavia, or indiscriminate
lamentations about the evils of nationalism. Combining political
analysis, reportage, polemic and personal reflection, this book
provides the first inside account and analysis of the tragic path
leading to Yugoslavia's break-up. Against the background of events
as they occurred since Tito's death in 1980, it tracks the process
whereby an equitable settlement between the country's constituent
nations was destroyed by an increasingly virulent Great-Serb
nationalism, bent on recentralizing the country under its own
hegemony. The book is written not by a passive spectator but by a
participant with a firm grasp of Yugoslavia's history, which
accounts for the breadth of its content. As the decade it covers
draws to a close, Branka Magas's initial cautious optimism changes
to a growing intimation of impending tragedy, and finally to
outrage at the slaughter visited upon Croatia and
Bosnia-Herzegovina by the Serbian army, with the tolerance or
complicity of Western chancelleries. The Destruction of Yugoslavia
represents a unique documentary testimony to Yugoslavia's
regression towards disintegration, war, and the horrors of "ethnic
cleansing;" a testimony which is frighteningly accurate.
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