Kosovo: How Myths and Truths Started a War

Kosovo: How Myths and Truths Started a War
ISBN-10
0520209621
ISBN-13
9780520209626
Series
Kosovo
Category
History
Pages
378
Language
English
Published
1999
Publisher
Univ of California Press
Author
Julie Mertus

Description

Explores the foundations of conflict in Kosovo, charging that the international community's failure to support the Albanians in their initial passive resistance to Serbian repression led to violence.

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