Hard Lessons from the Yugoslav Battles: Ethnic Dispute, Diplomacy, and Peacebuilding


I saw how a young child of about 10 was killed by Serbs in Dutch uniform. This happened before my own eyes. The mommy remained on the ground and her young boy rested next to her. The young child was positioned on his mommy’s lap. The young boy was eliminated. His head was cut off. The body continued to be on the lap of the mommy. The Serbian soldier placed the head of the young boy on his knife and revealed it to every person. … I saw just how a pregnant female was butchered. There were Serbs that stabbed her in the belly, reduced her open and took 2 small children out of her stomach and after that defeat them to fatality on the ground. I saw this with my very own eyes.

Image of previous President of Republika Srpska, Radovan Karadžić, taken upon his arrest in November 1984 On March 24, 2016, he was condemned of genocide, battle criminal activities, and criminal activities against mankind and sentenced to 40 years’ imprisonment.

Historic History and Context

Map of the previous Yugoslavia in the early 1990 s

The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia included six republics (Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia) and 2 self-governing provinces (Kosovo and Vojvodina) within Serbia. This multi-ethnic federation, straddling the Eastern and …

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