The Handmad's Tale The Terror on the Balkans
What had its roots in the ancient ethnic conflict in the Balkans led to the major tragic events in our modern world. The dictatorship government in Serbia began an operation of ethnic cleansing in the region of Kosovo. Strong Serbian-Christian military and paramilitary forces invaded Kosovo as if they were fighting against an equally strengthened force. Once in Kosovo, they started a brutal slaughter of the weakest part of the population, the part that had nowhere to run and had no money. One of the main tasks of Milosevic's led troops was to kill as many men as they could find. They were killing those fathers, sons and grandfathers because they were cowards, and also, because they were afraid of retaliation. Simply, Slobodan Milosevic wanted to wipe out a whole generation of people, that's his way of dealing with domestic problems. The results of this campaign are very sad ones; about one million ethnic Albanians were displaced, and about two thousand people were killed in the course of the past year. A long time will pass until we will know everything that happened in Kosovo. "Over the past year of conflict, the methods of violence used by the Serbian police have escalated to the point of war crimes and other violat
Merely in the beginning, the events in our present are not resembling the future described by Margaret Atwood. Nevertheless if we look closer to events that are taking place in our time, we can find many similarities which may, or may not lead us to the world that looks much like the one described by the author. I have used Yugoslavia as an example of how an isolated country could come to resemble the Republic of Gilead. With the ending of the Cold War and desire the of ethnic population of states of their own, such circumstances could recreate themselves many times over in our modern world. In all probability a Yugoslavia contained and no longer a threat to its neighbors, the international community would be reluctant to expend further energy in order to remove M. Milosovic from power. However, enough support could probably be found for economic sanctions which would lead to back shortages and suffering in the general population. A good tool for Milosovic's government would be the use of the church and its values to keep the population in order. If the church receives enough power it can succeed in controlling the public just like it did for centuries in the Dark Ages. Due to scarcity the church could be coerce
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