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Serbia is free for almost a year but at a terrible cost; it lost approximately 170,000 men – almost a half of its entire army. 1915: October: A typhus epidemic begins. 150,000 people die in Serbia this year alone. The country's population has already dropped by 10% since the beginning of the war
After a period of political and economic crisis in the 1980s, the constituent republics of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia split apart in the early 1990s. . Unresolved issues from the breakup caused a series of inter-ethnic Yugoslav Wars from 1991 to 2001 which primarily affected Bosnia and Herzegovina, neighbouring parts of Croatia and, some years later, K
The Serbian media during the Milošević era was known to espouse Serb nationalism while promoting xenophobia toward the other ethnicities in Yugoslavia. Ethnic Albanians were commonly characterised in the media as anti-Yugoslav counter-revolutionaries, rapists, and a threat to the Serb nation. [9]
Slobodan Milošević was the President of Serbia from 1989 to 1997. Later he served as the 3rd President of FR Yugoslavia from 1997 until his overthrow in 2000. Momir Bulatović was the President of the Republic of Montenegro from 1990 to 1998 and then Prime Minister of FR Yugoslavia from 1998 to 2000.
Yugoslav Wars; Part of the breakup of Yugoslavia and the post–Cold War era: Clockwise from top-left: Officers of the Slovenian National Police Force escort captured soldiers of the Yugoslav People's Army back to their unit during the Slovenian War of Independence; a destroyed M-84 tank during the Battle of Vukovar; anti-tank missile installations of the Serbia-controlled Yugoslav People's ...
The legal successor of that decision is the Republic of Serbia. [citation needed] Vojislav Koštunica, President of Yugoslavia from 2000 to 2003 and Prime Minister of Serbia from 2004 to 2006. The Yugoslav Wars resulted in a failing economy in Serbia due to sanctions, [13] hyperinflaton, [14] and anger at
Montenegrins vote for independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro in the Montenegrin independence referendum, 2006. February 2008. On February 17, 2008, Kosovo declared independence from Serbia and is recognised by 97 UN member states, including 4 of the former Yugoslav states. July 2011 - 2013
On 18 December 1992, the U.N. General Assembly resolution 47/121 in its preamble deemed ethnic cleansing to be a form of genocide stating: [23] [24]. Gravely concerned about the deterioration of the situation in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina owing to intensified aggressive acts by the Serbian and Montenegrin forces to acquire more territories by force, characterized by a consistent ...