Abstract
When World War II began, a climate for mass violence already existed. The author examines the history of ethnic cleansing, cultural cleansing, mass murder, and genocide in Yugoslavia – Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia-Hertzegovena, and Kosovo – and finds that the historical atrocities are alive in active memory today. With a new awareness of the consequences of ethnic hatred, people can study their own histories cleansed of myth and nationalist delusions so that wars that unleash ethnic violence can be stopped before these excesses erupt.
Recommended Citation
Bookbinder, Paul
(2005)
"A Bloody Tradition: Ethnic Cleansing in World War II Yugoslavia,"
New England Journal of Public Policy: Vol. 19:
Iss.
2, Article 8.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.umb.edu/nejpp/vol19/iss2/8
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