• DOI:10.1080/00905990701254375
• Corpus ID: 153832814

National Minorities and the Milošević Regime

@article{Clark2007NationalMA,
  title={National Minorities and the Milo{\vs}evi{\'c} Regime},
  author={Janine Natalya Clark},
  journal={Nationalities Papers},
  year={2007},
  volume={35},
  pages={317 - 339}
}

• J. Clark
• Published 1 May 2007
• Political Science
• Nationalities Papers

In April 1994, the Croatian government of the late Franjo Tudjman demanded that all “non white” UN troops be removed from Croatia, claiming that only “first-world troops” were sufficiently sensitized to Croatia's problems. In Western circles, however, it was Tudjman's Serbian counterpart, Slobodan Milosevic, who was often portrayed as a racist. Ramet, for example, argues that “Milosevic built his power on a foundation of hatred and xenophobia …”; Zimmermann refers to “the ethnic hatred sown by Milosevic and his ilk …”; and Duncan and Holman compare Milosevic to Russia's Vladimir Zhirinovsky, claiming that the latter's “blatant appeals to racism bear a striking resemblance to those of Milosevic's Serbia.” For her part, Madeleine Albright, speaking on national television as US Secretary of State in February 2000, described Milosevic as a man “who decides that if you are not of his ethnic group, you don't have a right to exist.”