Milosevic's Willing Executioners?
Yoshie Furuhashi
furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Tue Aug 31 09:59:35 PDT 1999
Angela wrote:
>>Chauvinism doesn't come out of thin air, nor should leftists regard it
>as the cause of the wars in the region.<
>
>and proceeds to do just this, to give an account of the yugoslav war as
>founded on the recognition or otherwise of 'ethnic' borders by 'western
>imperialism' (see below*).
No, the borders of the republics and autonomous provinces did not and were
not designed to coincide with the 'ethnic' borders. All of them were
internally multi-ethnic, as Yugoslavia was (and the rump Yugoslavia is)
multi-ethnic. Consult the scholarship on Yugoslavia published before 1990.
Yoshie
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