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34. The former Yugoslavia was a multinational federation with a three-tier system of national
group rights. The first category was the Jugoslovenski narodi (Yugoslav “peoples” or “nations”),
among which were the Serbs, Croats, and Muslims. Each had a “national home”
based in one of Yugoslavia’s six republics (except Serbs and Croats, who had two: Serbia
and Croatia, respectively, plus Bosnia-Herzegovina) and a constitutional right to equal political
representation.
35. Slobodan Milosevid gave this speech at the Congress of his Socialist Party of Serbia.
See RFE/RL (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty) Balkan Report, vol. 4. no. 15, February
22, 2000.
36. For a discussion of ethnicity as a “demobilizer” in the conflict, see Gagnon 1995,
1996.
37. Michael Herzfeld inspired this point.
38. The marker stone for a memorial and cemetery in Potodari was uncovered during
a ceremony on July 11, 2001, on the sixth anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide. Some thirteen
hundred policemen, including antiriot units (from Republika Srpska and the U.N. international
police force) were deployed at the ceremony. The three-ton marble stone was unveiled
by five women from Srebrenica whose husbands, sons, and other male relatives were
killed in the massacres. The ceremony was attended by more than three thousand people,
including survivors, relatives of those massacred, and representatives of the international
community and of the local authorities from the Federation half of B-H. Not a single official
from the Republika Srpska was, however, present at the ceremony (see Office of the
High Representative B-H Media Round-up 11/07 and 12/07/2001 at www.ohr.int).
39. See “The Changing Face of Republika Srpska,” Institute of War and Peace
Research Report, May 2000.
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