The Death of Yugoslavia

*The Death of Yugoslavia*
The Death of Yugoslavia
Narrated by	Robin Ellis (BBC version); Christiane Amanpour (Discovery Channel version)
Music by	Debbie Wiseman
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original languages	English, Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian, Slovene, Albanian, Italian, German, French, Russian, Spanish
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	6
Production
Executive producers	Brian Lapping; Nicholas Fraser
Producer	Norma Percy
Cinematography	Robert Andrejas; Ray Brislin; François Paumard; Markan Radeljić; Alexandar Stipić
Editor	Dawn Griffiths
Running time	50 minutes
Production company	Brian Lapping Associates
Original release
Network	BBC2
Release	3 September 1995 –; 6 June 1996

The Death of Yugoslavia (broadcast as Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation in the US)^[2] is a BBC documentary series first broadcast in September and October 1995, and returning in June 1996. It is also the title of a BBC book by Allan Little and Laura Silber that accompanies the series. It covers the collapse of Yugoslavia, the subsequent wars and the signing of the final peace accords. It uses a combination of archived footage interspersed with interviews with most of the main players in the conflict, including Slobodan Milošević, Radovan Karadžić, Franjo Tuđman and Alija Izetbegović, as well as members of the international political community, who were active in the various peace initiatives.

The series was awarded a BAFTA award in 1996 for Best Factual Series.^[3] It also won the 1995 Peabody Award and the 1997 Gold Baton at the Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Awards.^[2]^[4] Interviews for the series have been used by ICTY in war crimes prosecutions.^[5]

All the papers relating to the documentary series, including the full transcripts of the interviews, are lodged at the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives at King's College, University of London.^[6]

Episodes

Number	Title	Originally broadcast	Overview
1	Enter Nationalism	3 September 1995	After the death of Josip Broz Tito, rising nationalism grips Yugoslavia. This is exacerbated after Slobodan Milošević takes power in Serbia and turns against the Kosovar Albanians.
2	The Road to War	10 September 1995	In April 1990, Croatia holds its first free parliamentary election. Ethnic Serbs in Croatia feel threatened by the nationalist tone of Croatia's newly elected President Franjo Tuđman and they begin a Log Revolution in August 1990. On 19 May 1991, Croatia holds an independence referendum, which is approved by a wide majority. The Battle of Vukovar of August 1991 is the first major battle in the Croatian War of Independence.
3	Wars of Independence	17 September 1995	Slovenia and Croatia soon declare their independence and ask for international recognition. But Belgrade (the capital of both Serbia and Yugoslavia) does not see it this way because this means the collapse of Yugoslavia. Under Milošević's orders, the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) invades Croatia in an attempt to prevent their secession from Yugoslavia.
4	The Gates of Hell	24 September 1995	After the war between Yugoslavia and Croatia ends with the signing of an agreement, Serbia involves itself in Bosnia where a lot is at stake. Here begins the longest and the most tragic part of the conflict.
5	A Safe Area	1 October 1995	As the situation in Bosnia worsens, there is further conflict between the Serb and Bosnian forces. There is increasing UN involvement and NATO begins to step in. The Bosnians and Croats reach an agreement mediated by the UN whilst another UN agreement falls through, despite being signed by all parties. The suffering and persecution of Bosnian Muslims by Serb forces are featured.
6	Pax Americana	6 June 1996	Croatia launches Operation Storm and recaptures most of the territory of the self-proclaimed Republic of Serbian Krajina, which leads to a mass exodus of Serbs from Croatia. Bosnian Serb forces commit the Srebrenica and Markale massacres. In response, NATO launches Operation Deliberate Force and bombs the positions of Bosnian Serb forces, which forces the Bosnian Serbs to return to negotiations. US brokers the Dayton Agreement which effectively ends the Bosnian war.

Edits

The series was later re-edited and released in three parts:

"Enter Milošević"
"The Croats Strike Back"
"The Struggle for Bosnia"

In another edit, it was broadcast as a feature-length single documentary.

Interviewees

Diego Arria, former President of the United Nations Security Council
Blagoje Adžić, former Minister of Defence of Yugoslavia
Milan Aksentijević, former General of JNA forces in Bosnia, Croatia and Slovenia
Milan Babić, former President of the Republic of Serbian Krajina
Igor Bavčar, Slovenian politician
Mate Boban, former President of the Croat Republic of Herceg-Bosnia
Bogić Bogićević, former Yugoslav representative for SR Bosnia and Herzegovina
Dragoslav Bokan, Serbian film director and writer
Josip Boljkovac, former Minister of Interior of Croatia
Momir Bulatović, former President of SR Montenegro
Lord Carrington, UN envoy
Warren Christopher, United States Secretary of State
Vitaly Churkin, Russian diplomat
Dobrica Ćosić, Yugoslav and Serbian politician
Mile Dedaković, Croatian Army colonel
Slavko Degoricija, Croatian politician
Gianni De Michelis, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Italy
Jovan Divjak, Bosnian Serb general in the Bosnian Army
Rasim Delić, chief of staff of the Bosnian army
Raif Dizdarević, Bosnian politician
Murat Efendić, Bosnian politician
Peter Galbraith, US Ambassador to Croatia
Ejup Ganić, Bosnian politician
Hans-Dietrich Genscher, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Germany
Mate Granić, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Croatia
Petar Gračanin, former Secretary of Interior of Yugoslavia
Mustafa Hajrulahović, general in the Bosnian Army
Sefer Halilović, former commander of the Bosnian Army
David Hannay, British diplomat
Christopher R. Hill, American diplomat
Richard Holbrooke, Assistant Secretary US State Department
Larry Hollingworth, head of UNHCR operations in Bosnia
Douglas Hurd, Foreign Secretary of UK
Alija Izetbegović, President of the Republic of Bosnia
Janez Janša, Slovenian politician
Žarko Jokanović [sr], Serbian writer
Borisav Jović, former President of the Presidency of Yugoslavia
Perica Jurić – Croatian politician
Radovan Karadžić, former President of Republika Srpska
Donald Kerrick, Lieutenant General in US Army
Nikola Koljević, Vice President of Republika Srpska
Branko Kostić, former President of the Presidency of Yugoslavia
Momčilo Krajišnik, Speaker of the National Assembly of Republika Srpska
Milan Kučan, former President of Slovenia
Milutin Kukanjac, former General of JNA forces in Bosnia
Zlatko Lagumdžija, Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Anthony Lake, United States National Security Advisor
Lewis MacKenzie, chief of staff of the United Nations peacekeeping force in former Yugoslavia
Branko Mamula, former Minister of Defence of Yugoslavia
Milan Martić, former President of the Republic of Serbian Krajina
Mirjana Marković, wife of Slobodan Milošević
Josè Maria Mendiluce, UN representative in Bosnia
Stjepan Mesić, Croatian politician
Slobodan Milošević, former FR Yugoslavia president
Dušan Mitević, Serbian journalist
Philippe Morillon, UNPROFOR general
Naser Orić, commander of the Bosniak forces in Srebrenica
David Owen, British diplomat
Života Panić, former Minister of Defence of Yugoslavia
Rosemary Pauli, US delegate during Dayton negotiations
Pavle – patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church
Ilijaz Pilav, Srebrenica survivor, town council member
Biljana Plavšić, President of Republika Srpska
Slobodan Praljak, Bosnian Croat general
Armin Pohara, Bosnian actor
Ivica Račan, Croatian politician
Andrija Rašeta [hr; sh; sr], JNA general
Charles Redman, American diplomat
Jadranka, widow of Josip Reihl-Kir
Malcolm Rifkind, UK Foreign Secretary
Michael Rose, former Commander of UNPROFOR in Bosnia
Zulfo Salihović, Bosnian politician
Vojislav Šešelj, Serbian politician and paramilitary leader
Haris Silajdžić, Prime Minister of Bosnia
Miroslav Šolević, Serb nationalist leader in Kosovo
Martin Špegelj, former Minister of Defence of Croatia
Ivan Stambolić, former President of Serbia
Shashi Tharoor, head of peacekeeping operations in former Yugoslavia
Franjo Tuđman, President of Croatia
Vasil Tupurkovski, former Member of the Presidency of Yugoslavia for SR Macedonia
Miloš Vasić, Serbian journalist
Aleksandar Vasiljević, head of the Counterintelligence Service of Yugoslavia
Alexander Vershbow, American diplomat
Azem Vllasi, Kosovo Albanian politician
Michael Williams, British diplomat
Franci Zavrl, Slovenian journalist
Warren Zimmermann, last US ambassador to SFR Yugoslavia