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Following World War I, Serbia, as part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes (later renamed Yugoslavia), had no flag of its own but flew the Yugoslav blue-white-red tricolour (first hoisted on Oct. 31, 1918, shortly before the establishment of the kingdom).
War flag during the First Serbian Uprising (Serbian Revolution) Red background with two coat of arms (the Serbian cross and Triballian boar ) at the centre, Serbian Crown Jewels on the top and two Voivode flags on the bottom.
DateUseDescription1995–1998Horizontal tricolor of red, blue, and ...1992–1995Horizontal tricolor of red, blue, and ...1991Flag of SAO Krajina, SAO Western ...Horizontal tricolor of red, blue, and ...1943–1945Flag of Communist Serbian PartisansHorizontal tricolor of red, blue, and ...Serbia used the red, blue and white tricolor as a national flag continuously from 1835 until 1918, when Serbia ceased to be a sovereign state after it joined the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, later known as Yugoslavia, the tricolor was a used as a Serbian civil flag, from 1918 to 1945.
- Background
- Armed Conflicts
- War Crimes
- War Crime Trials
- Post-War Developments
- Displaced Serbs After The Wars
- Anti-War Movement
- Downfall of Slobodan Milošević
- Military Groups Reported of Committing War Crimes
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The 1990 survey conducted among Yugoslav citizens showed that ethnic animosity existed on a small scale. Compared to the results from 25 years before, Serbia was one of the republic with the smallest increase in ethnic distance, which stayed at medium. There was significant increase of ethnic distance among Serbs and Montenegrins toward Croats and ...
During the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s, the concept of a Greater Serbia was widely seen outside of Serbia as the motivating force for the military campaigns undertaken to form and sustain Serbian states on the territories of the breakaway Yugoslav republics of Croatia (the Republic of Serbian Krajina) and Bosnia and Herzegovina (the Republika Srpska...
Numerous war crimes were committed by Serbian military and Serbian paramilitary forces during the Yugoslav Wars. The crimes included massacres, ethnic cleansing, systematic rape, crimes against humanity. The International Court of Justice, cleared the Republic of Serbia of direct involvement in genocide, but found that it had failed to prevent mass...
International trials
The International Court of Justice treated all violent conflicts in ex-Yugoslavia until 7 October 1991 as internal clashes or civil war. But after that date, all conflicts, especially armed confrontations and human victims, are international armed conflicts. Republic of Serbia officially denied any military engagement into Bosnian War and Croatian War for Independence. However, many Serbian political, military and paramilitary leaders (including Slobodan Milošević, Vojislav Šešelj, Jovica Sta...
Domestic trials
The democratic leadership of Serbia recognized the need to investigate Serbian war crimes after the fall of Milošević, and a special war crimes tribunal was founded in Belgrade in 2003, after the Parliament of Serbiapassed the Law on Organization and Competence of State Bodies in the Proceedings Against War Crimes Perpetrators. Since then, the special prosecutor has prosecuted and the court has convicted several individuals for instances of war crimes, also committed under the command of the...
Bosnian War
Despite the ICTY finding, confirmed by the ICJ, a range of alternative views of the Srebrenica massacre exist, most of which argue that fewer than 8,000 were killed. The denial of the figure points out that fewer names were listed, that some were not even killed in that area and had died in previous years, in some cases people turned out to be alive, etc. Sonja Biserko of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbianotes: According to Human Rights Watch, the ultra-nationalist Serbian Rad...
Kosovo War
The Serbian police denied perpetrating the Drenica massacres in February–March 1998 and claimed they were just pursuing "terrorists" who had attacked the police. A police spokesman denied the "lies and inventions" about indiscriminate attacks and excessive force and said "the police has never resorted to such methods and never will." Belgrade government also denied responsibility for Vučitrn and Gornje Obrinje massacre on 26 September 1998. President Slobodan Milosevic has denied a policy of...
Domestic situation
Many Croats of Serbia suffered persecution during the Yugoslav Wars, escalating with the 1992 expulsions in Hrtkovci for which Vojislav Šešeljwas charged by the ICTY. The high number of casualties incurred in the Battle of Vukovar caused serious popular discontent in Serbia and Montenegro, where tens of thousands of those receiving draft papers went into hiding or left the country. A near-mutiny broke out in some reservist units, and mass demonstrations against the war were held in the Serbia...
At the conclusion of the wars in Bosnia and Croatia, numerous Serbs relocated to Serbia and Montenegro. By 1996, Serbia and Montenegro hosted about 300,000 registered refugees from Croatia and 250,000 from Bosnia and Herzegovina, while an additional 15,000 persons from Macedonia and Slovenia were also registered as refugees. The UNHCR registered 56...
Following the rise of nationalism and political tensions after Slobodan Milošević came to power, as well as the outbreaks of the Yugoslav Wars, numerous anti-war movements developed in Serbia. The anti-war protests in Belgrade were held mostly because of opposition the Siege of Vukovar, Siege of Dubrovnik and Siege of Sarajevo, while protesters dem...
After the defeat Milošević's party at the 1996 Serbian local elections and attempting electoral fraud, several months of anti-government protests took place and the opposition boycotted the following 1997 Serbian general election. The wide opposition alliance won the 2000 Yugoslavian general election, which led to the overthrow of Slobodan Miloševi...
During World War II, Serbia used a red, blue, and white tricolor with a white double-headed eagle in the middle, without a crown. This flag was used until the end of the war, when it was changed and a five-pointed star was inserted.
The Germans pushed Milan Nedić's collaboration government to deal with the uprisings, otherwise they would let Croatia, Hungary and Bulgaria occupy the country and maintain peace and order in it. The SDK flag was the regular Serbian flag with the emblem of SDK in the middle.
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6 days ago · Serbia - WWII, Axis, Partisans: Throughout the interwar years the king had attempted to build diplomatic links, initially with France and Czechoslovakia and after 1933 through the Balkan Entente with Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, and Turkey.
