After a lengthy history of warring factions, national name changes, different governments, and for the most part, greed, coveting, and other human behaviors, once again the world is treated to a USA bashing at the behest of Serbia.
Want the quick updated version or the long haul? That's what we thought too. Briefly then—The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes was formed in 1918; its name was changed to Yugoslavia in 1929. Various paramilitary bands resisted Nazi Germany's occupation and division of Yugoslavia from 1941 to 1945, but fought each other and ethnic opponents as much as the invaders.
The military and political movement headed by Joseph Tito, took over when German and Croatian separatist forces were defeated in 1945 and expelled from the country. Although Communist, Joseph Tito, was able to organize the military and government entities into what became Yugoslavia and remained as such for the next forty-five years—stable, member nation to the United Nations, and prosperous.
For nearly four and a half decades, Tito and his predecessors ensured that Yugoslavia continued prosperously until when in 1989, Slobodan Milosevic became president of the Serbian Republic and his ultranationalist calls for Serbian domination led to the violent breakup of Yugoslavia along ethnic lines.
Yugoslavia who most considers the 'Gem' of the world with the love out-pouring at Sarajevo during and after the Olympic games was to become the independent nations of Croatia, Slovenia, and Macedonia, followed by Bosnia in 1992.
The remaining republics of Serbia, and Montenegro declared a new Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) in April 1992 and under Milosevic's leadership, Serbia led various military campaigns to unite ethnic Serbs in neighboring republics into a "Greater Serbia," and subsequently was expelled from the U.N.
In 1998, a small-scale ethnic Albanian insurgency in the formerly autonomous Serbian province of Kosovo provoked a Serbian counterinsurgency campaign that resulted in massacres and massive expulsions of ethnic Albanians living in Kosovo. After N.A.T.O. air strikes with peace keeping troops primarily from Russia, France, and other N.A.T.O. forces, Milosevic's "Greater Serbia" was actually broken into two loose republics of Serbia, and Montenegro.
Widespread violence predominantly targeting ethnic Serbs in Kosovo in March 2004 caused the international community to open negotiations on the future status of Kosovo in January 2006. It was decided internationally that predicated upon various democratic processes, elections, and a constitution then in January 2008 Kosovo would be considered autonomous.
Kosovo's Albanian majority declared independence from Serbia with Western backing on February 17. Serbs in the north of Kosovo reject its secession, fuelling fears the country is destined for partition.
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