Yugoslavia - What Should Have Been Done?
Reporting a unique research & policy project since 1991
By Johan Galtung
Research note of March 12, 2010
Mihajlo (Markovic) stated this in fall 1991 at a UNESCO conference on democracy, in Praque:
“Yugoslavia as it was cannot be saved, it is doomed. But when it breaks up there is one thing we Serbs will never accept: living as minorities under those who killed us during the 2nd world war as allies of Hitler and Mussolini, and they lived and live in Zagreb, Sarajevo and Pristina.” [Read more…]
By Johan Galtung
Presumably written in 2000
[1] Europe is divided since 1054 (forerunner 395) and 1095 into three parts: Roman-Germanic/Catholic-Protestant (+USA = the West); Slavic-Orthodox and Turko-Muslim. Romania, Greece: ambiguous.
General archetype: Slavic/Orthodox, and Turko/Muslim, are evil.
[2] Faultlines intersect in Sarajevo/BiH; cut Pristina/Skopje.
[3] Parties are nations with claims on land with dualism of discourses as bondage versus independence. Living together only under foreign rule (Habsburg/Ottoman; Nazi; Tito; NATO). [Read more…]
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Published August 2014
Yugoslavia - What Should Have Been Done?