Foreword
Slobodan Milosevic was elected president of the Yugoslavian province of Serbia in 1989, using fiery nationalism to rise to power. His rhetoric helped ignite passions that shattered the Serb-dominated, formerly communist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, leading to a decade of civil war and ethnic upheaval throughout the Balkans.In the provinces of Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina, ethnic Serbs, Croats, and Muslims battled fiercely. Milosevic rallied Serbs throughout the region with calls for the resurgence of Serb power and the formation of a "Greater Serbia." Allegations of concentration camps, displaced villages, and gross human rights violations by ethnic Serbs abounded. A new phrase,…
