HIST 226 Lecture 28: 12_06
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After 72 days of bombing kosovo, serbia signs peace accord. Kosovo essentially becomes autonomous under un supervision. Radical nationalists, montenegro also dissatisfied with milosevic and thus support students alongside civil society. New elections, milosevic probably lost but won"t step down until protests/ bulldozer revolution . Croatia might have gone down a similar path, but tudjman died. Recordings released that reveal that tudjman knew about atrocities. Had already begin carrying out trials in absentia. Macedonian government, always more moderate, gave albanians much of the cultural autonomy they asked for. Desire to join eu has moderated shows of nationalism by politicians. Last nail in the coffin for yugoslavia. Recognized by us, canada, most eu members. Bosnia and herzegovina basically still a un dependency, somewhat of a failed state. Un high representative still has final say on election results, legislation. 1997 eu begins negotiations to allow poland, czechia, hungary, cyprus. Needed to bring their laws into line with eu laws.
