The Death of Yugoslavia [Media tie-in] 9780140249040, 0140249044

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Wl i lie t il e western world stood by.

seemingly paralysed, and International peace efforts broke down, tl i e former Yllgoslavia was witnessing Ellrope's bloodiest conflict for lIal! it centllry.

Tne Oe a ln 01 Yugosl/lvra ·s tllc first

account to go behind the pubhc face 01 battle and Into the ctosed worlos 01 the

key pa y e . s m the war. Laur" Sitber.

Balkans corresponuent 'or the FmanCI,1/

Times, and Allan little, award wlnnmg BBC

journa 1St. plOl1ho road to ....ar and the war Ilseif. They P npOlnt Ihe key eventS thai occurred in the c apItals of Belgrade and Zagreb, and In Village s f(lvaged by 'ethn,c cleansing'

and draw on eye,wllness

testimony. sc ru pul ous reseMch and hundreds

of

Intcr�le ....s .

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give

urwrecc dcnted access to the facts behind the media

S\Ofles.

CIliJllenglng the

receiv ed Wisdom \11m the war occurred as

a spontaneous and n I evlt8ble eruption 01

ethniC hatredS, tile iluthors expose, slep

by-slep, a p',l!l 10 d i v id e the country by

force of arms.

Could anything have been done 10 prevent thiS temble tragedy? WllOt Will be liS

lasting effects? The authors conSider

these Questions and assess the present

siluallon and Its Imphcat,ons lor IUlure Inlernallona

reiaiions. Wntten With lIall

and authorily. The Deilrh 01 YIJgoSl8vI8

offers a uniQue InSlghl 11"110 a war

unpreceoenled 11"1 (urope SlIlCe

PENGUIN

Current Events

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1945.

Laura Silber

is the Balkans Correspondent for the Finanrial Timts. She was the series consultant for Tht D(alh rfYull's/Qvia and has been based in Ihe region for eight rears. Widdr acknowledged among journalists, diplomats and scholars as one of the English-speaking world's leading interpreters of the causes and progress of the Yugoslav wars, her knowledge of the politics of the former Yugoslavia is unequalled among foreign journalists. Allan Little has been a correspondent with BBC radio and television news since 1988 and has covered the wars in the former Yugoslavia since the fighting erupted in Ihe summer of 1991. He has reported from most of the theatres of conflict in Croatia and Bosnia-Hencgovina and hlS won wide­ spread praise for his compassionate accounts of the war, and those caught up in it. His consistently perceptive reporting has laid bare the dynllmics both of the war itself and of the failure of intemllrional efforts to end it.

CONTENTS Maps Cast of Characters Abbreviations Note

on Pronunciation

Introduction

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YugoJ{av;a which was first broadcast in autumn 199$. The series W1S

This book is published to accomplny

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produced for EBC Television by Bri:lI1 Lapping Associates Ltd. Associlte Producer Michael Simkin ProduarlDil"Ktor Attgus Macqueen and Paul Mi tchell Serin Produar Nonna Percy

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PART ONK LAYING THE CHARGE Chapter I: 'This is Our Land'

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Chapter 2:

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The Stirring ofSerb Nati onaliJm No One Should Dare to Beat You'

TIN Rise ofSlobodan Milafroit April 1987-Deumber 1987

Chapter 3: 'No Way Back'

The Slovene Spring, 1988 Chapter 4: 'Comrade Slobodan, Think Hard'

M ilofroitJ Anti-Bureaucratic Revolution July 1988-March 1989

Chapter

5:

Chapter 6:

Tsar Lazar's Choice

March 1989-January 1990 :A Croatian Rifle on a Croatian Shoulder'

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60 74 87

Tht Awakming ofCroatia 1989-1990

PART TWO, LIGHTING THE FUSE Chapter 7: 'The Remnants of a Slaughtered People'

The Knin Rtbtllion JanuarrAugust 1990

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Chapter 8: 'You've Chosen War'

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TIN Arming ofSlownia and Croatia April 199G--january 199 1

Chapter 9: 'If We Don't Know How to Work. At Least We Know How [0 Fight'

TIN DeciJi'lJe Month March 199 1

Chap ter 10: The Descent into War

Croatia and the SeThJ Fehruary-june 199 1

Chapter 11: Conversations of the Deaf

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Chapter

19: We are the Winners' The undon Conftrmu MorDeumhu1992

285

Chapter 20: The Hottest Corner

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Chapter

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TIN Fall ofSrehunicl1 and UN Soft AreaJ April 1993

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21: Last-chance Cafe The Riu and Fall of thl Vanu-Owm Plan januarrMay 1993

Chapter 22: Beware Your Friend a Hundred-fold

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Chapter 23: The HMS Invisihlt

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Chapter 24: A Qyestion of Control

343

Chapter 25: Gaining Moral Ground

354

Chapter 26: To the Mogadishu Line

360

The MUJlim-Croat Conflict 1992-1994

169

Slovmias Phoney War junt-july 199 1

Chapter 13: 'An Undeclared and Dirty War'

18: The Cleansing TINSummuof 1992

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Thl LOJt ChanceSquandered Marjune 199 1

PART THREE ,THE EXPLOSION OF WAR Chapter 12: 'The Hour of Europe has Dawned'

Chapter

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Talks atSm, Summer 1993

The MarJutSquare Bomh and thl NATO Uilimatum Fthruary 1994

TlNjNA in Croatia ju'rDl(emher 199 1

Chapter 14: Yugolsavia Ii la Cartt

urd Carrington's Plan

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The WOJhington..1grummt Fehruary 1994

Stpltmher 199 1-january 1992

Thl Battlefor Gorauil, April 1994

PART FOUR, BOSNlA Chapter 15: Before the Deluge

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Chapter 16: The Gat..; of Hell

245

Chapter 17: The President is Kidnapped

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july 199O-March 1992 The Outhreak of War in Bosnia 1- 10..1pril, 1992 May2-3, 1992

Chapter 27: C onclus ion

i'\ Dagger in the Back' TheSerhianSplit,fu1l1 1994

373 384

Acknowledgements

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Index

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