JWST 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Sebastian Gorka, International Security, Humanitarian Crisis

• School: McGill University
• Department: Jewish Studies
• Course: JWST 240
• Professor: Dan Heller

Document Summary

Yugoslav wars and potential comparisons to the holocaust. Presumption that the world would this time intervene. Differing views on lessons of the holocaust . Twice there was a country, after wwi (1918) and wwii. Begins to talk about need for greater serbia and protecting serbs abroad. Elected pres of serbia, moves yugoslav troops into kosovo. Croats and slovenes fear they are next. But important to national myth of serbs. Croats call for independence, mount anti-serb campaign. Yr long war, atrocities on both sides. But then croats (backed by us) move back in and begin ethnic cleansing. Supposed to be under protection by dutch un troops, who pull out when serbs come in. Almost entire male muslim pop (8,000) of city killed. Some albanian terrorist attacks in response, which only prompted further serb aggression. March 1999, 78 day nato bombing campaign. Intl community claimed that rwandan genocide appeared out of thin air .