Cleansings
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It was Serbia, Yugoslavia’s largest federal unit, which, led by Slobodan Milosevic, triggered the great Balkans crisis and caused numerous wars and “ethnic cleansings” as the federation collapsed at the start of the 1990’s.
The warfare of the past centuries, in particular the bloody ethnic
cleansings
of the past decade, is not valid anymore.
And today -- even in Europe -- rulers use theatrical tools to arouse the kind of blind nationalism that leads to wars, ethnic cleansings, concentration camps and genocide.
For decades, Africa’s boundaries have been denounced as the artificial and arbitrary work of ignorant and cynical colonial officers, which has contributed to a long train of tribal rivalries, if not ethnic
cleansings.
Had there been an immediate threat of intervention after the Serbian shelling of Dubrovnik or the siege of Vukovar, then the later massacres and ethnic cleansings, the shameful siege of Sarajevo, the brutalities in Mostar and the mass murders in Srebrenica could have been avoided.
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