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7. Gourevitch, We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families, pp. 58–60.
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8. Ibid., pp. 60–61, 64–65.
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9. Ibid., pp. 82, 89–92.
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10. Ibid., pp. 82–83, 85–88, 93.
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11. Ibid., pp. 100, 115.
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12. Ibid., p. 59.
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13. The population figures for Serbs and Croats in the former Yugoslavia are based on the 1981 census, as reported in Bruce McFarlane, Yugoslavia (London and New York: Pinter Publishers, 1988), p. 2. The economic figures from 1918 and 1930 are from Branka Prpa-Jovanovi´c, “The Making of Yugoslavia: 1830–1945,” in Jasminka Udoviÿcki and James Ridgeway, eds., Burn This House (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997), p. 54.
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14. On the different cultural and religious roots of the north and south, see Hugh Poulton, The Balkans (London: Minority Rights Publications, 1991), pp. 7, 22–24, 34–35; Marcus Tanner, Croatia: A Nation Forged in War (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997), pp. 29–40, 187, 192, 195–97; and Jasminka Udoviÿcki, “The Bonds and the Fault Lines,” in Udoviÿcki and Ridgeway, eds., Burn This House, pp. 14–21.
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15. Dijana Pleÿstina, Regional Development in Communist Yugoslavia (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1992), p. xxi. The statistics on the stark economic, health, and educational disparities between north and south are from: Jack C. Fisher, Yugoslavia (San Francisco: Chandler Publishing, 1966), p. 72; United Nations, InfoNation, available at http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/infonation/e-infonation.htm; and the World Bank’s
“country at a glance” data, available at http://www.worldbank.org/data/countrydata/aag/yug_aag.pdf.
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16. Stephen Engelberg, “Carving Out a Greater Serbia,” New York Times, September 1, 1991, p. 19. See also Pleÿstina, Regional Development in Communist Yugoslavia, pp. 13–58, 69–71.
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17. See Tim Judah, The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997), chapters 8 and 9, especially pp. 165, 177.
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18. Johanna McGeary, “Face to Face with Evil,” Time, May 13, 1996, p. 46. See also Blaine Harden, “Serbian Leader in Firm Control Despite Protests,” Washington Post, March 10, 1992, p. A12, and Eric Margolis, “The End for Slobodan?” Ottawa Sun, July 19, 1999, p. 15.
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19. Richard Beeston, “Rape and Revenge,” The Times, December 17, 1992, and Laura Pitter, “Beaten and scarred for life in the Serbian ‘rape camps,’” South China Morning Post, December 27, 1992, p. 8.
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20. Engelberg, “Carving Out a Greater Serbia,” p. 19 (emphasis added).
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Chapter 8
1. Along with most China scholars, I assume here that the “Han” Chinese in China may be viewed appropriately as a single ethnic group, even though the category of “Han” is highly artificial. See, for example, John King Fairbank and Merle Goldman, China: A New History (Cambridge: Belknap Press, 1998), p. 23.
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2. On Singapore, see Joseph B. Tamney, The Struggle Over Singapore’s Soul (Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1996), pp. 20, 96–103, 187. On Japan, see “Japanese Parliament Passes ‘Ainu’ Minority Rights Bill,” Agence France-Presse, May 8, 1997. On Taiwan, see Alan M. Wachman, Taiwan: National Identity and Democratization (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1994), pp. 15–17.
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3. Victor Purcell, The Chinese in Southeast Asia (2d ed.) (London: Oxford University Press for the Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1965), pp. 85, 92–93, 115–23.
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4. Ibid., p. 131. On Chinese economic dominance in Thailand, see pp. 127–31, 139.
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5. Ibid., pp. 143–47, and David K. Wyatt, Thailand: A Short History (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1984), pp. 254–55, 292.
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6. Purcell, The Chinese in Southeast Asia,