Author:
Mojzes, Paul.
Imprint:Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2011.
Descriptionxv, 299 p. ; 24 cm.
Note: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 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the author.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note:Details the history of the three major waves of genocide and ethnic cleansing in the Balkan peninsula and Yugoslavia during the twentieth century.
