Serbian state-run television denounced Kučan as a separatist, a traitor, and an endorser of Albanian separatism.

[clarification needed], The influence of xenophobia and ethnic hatred in the collapse of Yugoslavia became clear during the war in Croatia.

Of these, 94.17% (78.69% of the total voting population) voted "in favor" of the proposal, while 1.2% of those who voted were "opposed". By this time, the Slovenian government had already put into action its plan to seize control of both the international Ljubljana Airport and Slovenia's border posts on borders with Italy, Austria and Hungary.

Williams had been an award-winning playwright since 1945, when his first hit play, The Glass Menagerie, opened, winning the ...read more, Mitchell Johnson, 13, and Andrew Golden, 11, shoot their classmates and teachers in Jonesboro, Arkansas on March 24, 1998. However, the over-expansion of the economy caused inflation and pushed Yugoslavia into economic recession. Our editors will review what you’ve submitted and determine whether to revise the article. Before World War II, major tensions arose from the first, monarchist Yugoslavia's multi-ethnic make-up and relative political and demographic domination of the Serbs.
Milošević and his allies took on an aggressive nationalist agenda of reviving SR Serbia within Yugoslavia, promising reforms and protection of all Serbs.

Croatian delegate Stjepan Mesić responded angrily to the proposal, accusing Jović and Kadijević of attempting to use the army to create a Greater Serbia and declared "That means war!".

Despite the 1973 Paris Peace Accords cease fire, the fighting had continued between South Vietnamese forces and the North Vietnamese troops in South Vietnam. The United Nations (UN) Security Council condemned this excessive use of force and imposed an arms embargo, but the violence continued.

[37] : You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work; to remix – to adapt the work; Under the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. The Ustaše resolved that the Serbian minority were a fifth column of Serbian expansionism, and pursued a policy of persecution against the Serbs. The United States, the United Kingdom and much of the European Union recognized this as an act of self determination, with the United States sending people to help assist Kosovo. For the consequent military conflicts, see, Process starting in mid-1991 leading to the abolishment of the state of Yugoslavia, Animated series of maps showing the Breakup of the, along with western Macedonia and south-eastern Montenegro, Metohija controlled by Austria-Hungary 1915–1918, Death of Tito and the weakening of Communism, Economic collapse and the international climate, Independence of the Republic of Macedonia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, sfn error: no target: CITEREFŽerjavić1993 (. After Jović's term as head of the collective presidency expired, he blocked his successor, Mesić, from taking the position, giving the position instead to Branko Kostić, a member of the pro-Milošević government in Montenegro. Later Jović spoke to the crowds with enthusiasm and told them that Milošević was going to arrive to support their protest. Its parliament was fragmented on ethnic lines into a plurality Bosniak faction and minority Serb and Croat factions. [51], UN investigations found that no such forces were in Dubrovnik at the time. Zagreb had by this time discontinued submitting tax money to Belgrade, and the Croatian Serb entities in turn halted paying taxes to Zagreb. Yougoslavie 1998, un rêve d'équipe Uchronie – Imaginons que la Yougoslavie n'ait pas implosé, et qu'elle se soit présentée unie à la Coupe du monde 1998. Re: Yugoslavia | 1998 Post by ElDiez » 2014 May 09 , 20:03 I think the Formation was a 4-2-2-2 or a 4-1-3-2 (The 4 Defenders in a Row and Jokanović DMF and 3 OMF, Savićević and Mijatović as Striker. The plane took off ...read more, U.S. astronaut Shannon Lucid transfers to the Russian space station Mir from the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis for a planned five-month stay. As a result of these events, in February 1989 ethnic Albanian miners in Kosovo organized a strike, demanding the preservation of the now-endangered autonomy. [19] Yugoslavia's debt load, initially estimated at a sum equal to $6 billion U.S dollars, instead turned to be equal to sum equivalent to $21 billion U.S. dollars, which was a colossal sum for a poor country. This was seen by the Serbian public as a devastating blow to Serb pride because of the historic links that Serbians held with Kosovo. [52] Croatian military presence increased later on. Mitchell Johnson, 13, and Andrew Golden, 11, shoot their classmates and teachers in Jonesboro, Arkansas on March 24, 1998. The move immediately led to a strong reaction from local Slovenians, who organized spontaneous barricades and demonstrations against the YPA's actions.

The FRY was dominated by Slobodan Milošević and his political allies. Montenegrin Prime Minister Milo Đukanović, at the time an ally of Milošević, appealed to Montenegrin nationalism, promising that the capture of Dubrovnik would allow the expansion of Montenegro into the city which he claimed was historically part of Montenegro, and denounced the present borders of Montenegro as being "drawn by the old and poorly educated Bolshevik cartographers". In Serbia, there was great resentment towards these developments, which the nationalist elements of the public saw as the "division of Serbia". [22] Finally, the politics of austerity brought to the fore tensions between the well off "have" republics like Slovenia and Croatia versus the poorer "have not" republics like Serbia. At the same time, former royalist, General Milan Nedić, was installed by the Axis as head of the puppet government and local Serbs were recruited into the Gestapo and the Serbian Volunteer Corps, which was linked to the German Waffen-SS. This constitution broke down powers between the capital and the autonomous regions in Vojvodina (an area of Yugoslavia with a large number of ethnic minorities) and Kosovo (with a large ethnic-Albanian population). By signing up for this email, you are agreeing to news, offers, and information from Encyclopaedia Britannica. The Three Yugoslavias: State-Building and Legitimisation.