ETNIČKO ČIŠĆENJE KAO STRATEGIJA DRŽAVA NA PROSTORU BIVŠE SFRJ
Ethnic Cleansing as a Strategy of States in the Territory of Former Yugoslavia

Summary/Abstract: Ethnic cleansing in the territory of former Yugoslavia is an undeniable fact in the strategy of successor states formed in the war of 1991–1995. It is also a fact that all these states ascribe and admit ethnic cleansing only in connection with „others”, refusing to admit it as their own strategy. The paper tries to prove this clear statement adducing fragmentary proofs for all subjects and all parts of the former common state territory. The paper shows that ethnic cleansing played a more important role in the war strategy than all other elements or features. Greatest war crimes committed by individuals (Srebrenica, „Storm”, etc.) were just one of the methods in a complex strategy of ethnic cleansing. These methods resulted in expulsion of hundreds of thousands of civilians from their homes and in creation of millionmasses of refugees which will encumber political relations between the Balkan states for years to come.

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