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Seaver · 08-11-2004, 08:11 PM

Yugoslavia has always been a geographicly unified area but religiously and culturally devided.

It was where the Muslim armies were stopped cold, prevented from invading Europe, but the European armies were never strong enough to kick them fully out of the region.

Fast forward a couple hundred years, the region spawns many different ideological activists. One of them manages to kill the next king of Austria/Hungary... leading to lots of bad things.

So they get to be their own nation, split up for the first time on language based on the belief of the time that language barriers are "natural" barriers. So if everyone of a language got their own country there would be no conflict.

They are all weak, very little military, so border fighting between clanish village-families runs throughout the area, but because they lack any unity no one pays attention. The governments dont like each other that much so they dont care to stop it.

Then WWII comes around, ending up in Soviet control. At first there was a lot of inter-culture disputes, but the Soviet leaders were very heavyhanded on dealing with it, so everything was quelled.

After the split up of the Soviet Union the heavy-handed government is no longer there, the old disputes errupt. The old lines of division (religion, culture, language) split the nation apart. It's not so much WHAT happened, that's kind of null because it was just a matter of time before they came up with an excuse for it.

Milosovitch (sp?) tried to unify it under him, but was unable to complete it militarily. So the weakest of the nations (Bosnia) fell under his attack. While he was at it he decided to get rid of the religious/language barrier in that area, how? by eliminating those people.

There ya go, a condensed history of the place.

08-11-2004, 08:11 PM	#2 (permalink)
Seaver Junkie Location: Fort Worth, TX	Yugoslavia has always been a geographicly unified area but religiously and culturally devided. It was where the Muslim armies were stopped cold, prevented from invading Europe, but the European armies were never strong enough to kick them fully out of the region. Fast forward a couple hundred years, the region spawns many different ideological activists. One of them manages to kill the next king of Austria/Hungary... leading to lots of bad things. So they get to be their own nation, split up for the first time on language based on the belief of the time that language barriers are "natural" barriers. So if everyone of a language got their own country there would be no conflict. They are all weak, very little military, so border fighting between clanish village-families runs throughout the area, but because they lack any unity no one pays attention. The governments dont like each other that much so they dont care to stop it. Then WWII comes around, ending up in Soviet control. At first there was a lot of inter-culture disputes, but the Soviet leaders were very heavyhanded on dealing with it, so everything was quelled. After the split up of the Soviet Union the heavy-handed government is no longer there, the old disputes errupt. The old lines of division (religion, culture, language) split the nation apart. It's not so much WHAT happened, that's kind of null because it was just a matter of time before they came up with an excuse for it. Milosovitch (sp?) tried to unify it under him, but was unable to complete it militarily. So the weakest of the nations (Bosnia) fell under his attack. While he was at it he decided to get rid of the religious/language barrier in that area, how? by eliminating those people. There ya go, a condensed history of the place.