Description |
xv, 299 pages ; 24 cm. |
Series |
Studies in genocide : religion, history, and human rights |
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Studies in genocide.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
1. Definitions of genocide and ethnic cleansing -- 2. The heritage of horrors -- 3. Balkan Wars 1912-1913 : an unrecognized genocide. Epilogue : World War I as the Third Balkan War -- The Greek-Turkish Wars -- 4. 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 -- 5. 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) -- 6. Multiple genocides of World War II : Southeastern Balkans. Bulgarian Jews not deported to death camps -- Macedonia -- Greece under German, Italian, and Bulgarian occupation -- 7. 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 -- 8. Ethnic cleansing during Yugoslavia's wars of disintegration in the 1990s. The context -- Contentious analytical issues -- 9. War in Croatia. Overview of the war -- Was it genocide and/or ethnic cleansing? 10. 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] -- 11. 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? -- 12. International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia -- 13. Onward into the twenty-first century : a postscript. Threat of genocide averted in Macedonia -- Prospects for the Balkans -- Time line. |
Subject |
Genocide -- Balkan Peninsula -- History.
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Genocide -- Yugoslavia -- History.
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Ethnic conflict -- Balkan Peninsula -- History.
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Ethnic conflict -- Yugoslavia -- History.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities -- Balkan Peninsula.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities -- Yugoslavia.
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Atrocities -- Balkan Peninsula.
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Atrocities -- Yugoslavia.
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Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 -- Atrocities.
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ISBN |
9781442206632 cloth alkaline paper |
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1442206632 cloth alkaline paper |
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9781442206656 electronic |
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1442206659 electronic |
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