elsinki bulletin - SERBIA: BUILDING tHE StAtE AND StAtE AND NAtIONAL IDENtItY

The homogenization of the Serbian stronger and bigger than the existing one, at the people already began at that time, primarily due time of the breakup of Yugoslavia.1 to the Kosovo problem and alleged endanger- ment of the Serbian people in Yugoslavia. [...] He also points out that, in a transition from ideology to After the wars of the nineties, Serbia embarked identity, in both the West and the East, emotions on the process of creating a new identity, based become more important than ever in shaping on the new premises and traumas caused by the worldview.2 Bearing in mind the disorderly those wars, primarily due to its defeats in the state of the wo. [...] raeli historian Gideon Greif, who headed the In- ternational Commission of Inquiry on the Suf- Despite the abundance of the facts from the ferings of All Peoples in the Srebrenica Region International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Between 1992 and 1995 (formed by the Gov- Yugoslavia (ICTY), hereinafter referred to as the ernment of the B&H entity Republic of Srpska), Hague Tribunal, and the Int. [...] In the current international con- tion into the Western Balkans, primarily into text, everything is confined to the thesis that the Serbia and the Republic of Srpska as early as West prevents the “unification of the Serbian 2013-2014. [...] The autocephaly of the Montenegrin Or- that Serbia is faced with a big challenge in con- thodox Church will represent the completion of nection with Kosovo’s independence and advo- the Montenegrin statehood process and, in this cates the keeping of the problem in a state of sense, the church issue is the only one left open frozen conflict.7 At the same time, they believe among the identity issues.