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National Minorities and the Milošević Regime

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Janine Clark
Janine Clark*
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Department of International Politics, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK. Email: jic@aber.ac.uk
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In April 1994, the Croatian government of the late Franjo Tudjman demanded that all “non white” UN troops be removed from Croatia, claiming that only “first-world troops” were sufficiently sensitized to Croatia's problems. In Western circles, however, it was Tudjman's Serbian counterpart, Slobodan Milosevic, who was often portrayed as a racist. Ramet, for example, argues that “Milosevic built his power on a foundation of hatred and xenophobia …”; Zimmermann refers to “the ethnic hatred sown by Milosevic and his ilk …”; and Duncan and Holman compare Milosevic to Russia's Vladimir Zhirinovsky, claiming that the latter's “blatant appeals to racism bear a striking resemblance to those of Milosevic's Serbia.” For her part, Madeleine Albright, speaking on national television as US Secretary of State in February 2000, described Milosevic as a man “who decides that if you are not of his ethnic group, you don't have a right to exist.”

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Nationalities Papers , Volume 35 , Issue 2 , May 2007 , pp. 317 - 339
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Copyright © 2007 Association for the Study of Nationalities 

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