August 2004
Intermediate to advanced
288 pages
10h 30m
English
On 10 April 1992 Jose Maria Mendiluce, the UNHCR’s most senior official in the former Yugoslavia, left Belgrade for Sarajevo after a meeting with Serbian president, Slobodan Milosevic. Mendiluce was traveling through a region where the nexus of population, territory and security was in crisis and violently coming apart. A month previously, the Yugoslav Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina had conducted a referendum on independence that Bosnian Serbs largely boycotted yet which the majority endorsed. Four days earlier, European Union foreign ministers recognized the independence of Bosnia-Herzegovina, followed a day later by ...
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