The Factors of Ethnic Cleansing in Former Yugoslav Conflict : A Socio-Historic Discourse Analysis

The purpose of this study is examine the factors of the hard-fight and ethnic cleansing in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1990', which was built in 1918 on the basis of multi-racism and since then there had been few conflicts. This article attempted to discuss these issues in terms of critical discourse analysis. First, from the standpoint of the history of social context, the following results were obtained: 1) There had been few battles between Serbs and Croats till the WWII: 2) Serbs and Croats did ethnic cleansing each other in the WWII, which was the same conflicting structure compared with former Yugoslavia clash. Second, I tried to analyze the discourse linguistically, the result indicated that each ethnic leader both in the ' 40s and in the ' 90s had the three ideologies in common: 1) boycott of the other ethnic: 2) topography: 3) eugenics. Finally, each ethnic reader in the ' 90s abused rhetoric that reminded people of the terrible fight between Serbs and Croats in the WWII and that made the framework of 'ingroup/outgroup' distinction. It follows from what has been said thus far that: 1) the ideologies above had been in the social context since the WWII until former Yugoslav strife, which produced the same structure of collision: 2) once the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia collapsed, the aspect of these ideologies and the memories of ethnic cleansing in the WWII rose to the surface: 3) The prototype of 'ethnic cleansing nations' that was formed by the rhetoric was reproduced during the fight and then united with the Third Reich. These results led us to the conclusion that the prototype of ethnic cleansing nations combined with the Third Reich forced the participants to reject the peace pact and forwarded to hate the others and battle each other completely.