- Summary
- Details the history of the three major waves of genocide and ethnic cleansing in the Balkan peninsula and Yugoslavia during the twentieth century.
- Series
- Studies in genocide : religion, history, and human rights
Studies in genocide.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Mojzes, Paul.
- Published
- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2011
- Locale
- Balkan Peninsula
Yugoslavia
- Contents
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Definitions of genocide and ethnic cleansing
The heritage of horrors
Balkan Wars 1912-1913 : an unrecognized genocide. Epilogue : World War I as the Third Balkan War ; The Greek-Turkish Wars
Multiple genocides of World War II : Western Balkans. Preliminary philosophical and theological concerns ; Genocide in the "Independent State of Croatia" ; Genocidal aspects of Italian occupational authorities in Yugoslav lands ; Slovenia ; Bosnia and Herzegovina
Multiple genocides of World War II : Northeastern and Central Balkans. Belgrade and Serbia proper ; Backa and Baranja under Hungarian occupation ; The fate of the Yugoslav Army's Jewish POWs ; Montenegro ; Albania and Kosovo
Massacres and ethnic cleansing by Cetniks ; Genocide against Roma (Gypsies)
Multiple genocides of World War II : Southeastern Balkans. Bulgarian Jews not deported to death camps ; Macedonia ; Greece under German, Italian, and Bulgarian occupation
Retaliatory genocides against wartime enemies. Genocide of Yugoslavia's ethnic Germans ; Massacres of Hungarians ; Ethnic cleansing of Italians ; Bleiburg and the fate of Ustase and other militaries collaborating with the Axis
Ethnic cleansing during Yugoslavia's wars of disintegration in the 1990s. The context ; Contentious analytical issues
War in Croatia. Overview of the war ; Was it genocide and/or ethnic cleansing? War in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Problems leading to the war ; Major events of the war ; The horrors of ethnic cleansing ; The Srebrenica genocide ; Genocidal rape ; Did genocide occur in Bosnia and Herzegovina? ; Appendix [translation of a segmant of the book Ubijanje smrti (The killing of death) by Jasmin Imamovic]
Protracted conflict and war in Kosovo. Overview of Serbian-Kosovar Albanian relationships, 1945-1999 ; Overview of the War of 1999 ; The destruction of Serbian Orthodox holy places ; Ethnic cleansing in reverse ; Did genocides and/or ethnic cleansing occur in Kosovo?
International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia
Onward into the twenty-first century : a postscript. Threat of genocide averted in Macedonia ; Prospects for the Balkans
Time line.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Definitions of genocide and ethnic cleansing -- The heritage of horrors -- Balkan Wars 1912-1913 : an unrecognized genocide. Epilogue : World War I as the Third Balkan War ; The Greek-Turkish Wars -- Multiple genocides of World War II : Western Balkans. Preliminary philosophical and theological concerns ; Genocide in the "Independent State of Croatia" ; Genocidal aspects of Italian occupational authorities in Yugoslav lands ; Slovenia ; Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Multiple genocides of World War II : Northeastern and Central Balkans. Belgrade and Serbia proper ; Backa and Baranja under Hungarian occupation ; The fate of the Yugoslav Army's Jewish POWs ; Montenegro ; Albania and Kosovo -- Massacres and ethnic cleansing by Cetniks ; Genocide against Roma (Gypsies) -- Multiple genocides of World War II : Southeastern Balkans. Bulgarian Jews not deported to death camps ; Macedonia ; Greece under German, Italian, and Bulgarian occupation -- Retaliatory genocides against wartime enemies. Genocide of Yugoslavia's ethnic Germans ; Massacres of Hungarians ; Ethnic cleansing of Italians ; Bleiburg and the fate of Ustase and other militaries collaborating with the Axis -- Ethnic cleansing during Yugoslavia's wars of disintegration in the 1990s. The context ; Contentious analytical issues -- War in Croatia. Overview of the war ; Was it genocide and/or ethnic cleansing? War in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Problems leading to the war ; Major events of the war ; The horrors of ethnic cleansing ; The Srebrenica genocide ; Genocidal rape ; Did genocide occur in Bosnia and Herzegovina? ; Appendix [translation of a segmant of the book Ubijanje smrti (The killing of death) by Jasmin Imamovic] -- Protracted conflict and war in Kosovo. Overview of Serbian-Kosovar Albanian relationships, 1945-1999 ; Overview of the War of 1999 ; The destruction of Serbian Orthodox holy places ; Ethnic cleansing in reverse ; Did genocides and/or ethnic cleansing occur in Kosovo? -- International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia -- Onward into the twenty-first century : a postscript. Threat of genocide averted in Macedonia ; Prospects for the Balkans -- Time line.
