A series of five programmes that draws on the testimony of leaders and participants from all sides of the bloodiest conflict in Europe since the Second World War to make sense of today's news from Bosnia, Serbia and Croatia by telling the story of how Yugoslavia came to fall apart.
Enter Nationalism. The violent collapse of Yugoslavia began in April 1987 when Serbia's then-president, Ivan Stambolic , sent his deputy,
Slobodan Milosevic , to Kosovo, a poor region in Serbia, to calm an ethnic conflict that was threatening.
In this first programme, President
Milosevic of Serbia and his inner circle describe how he betrayed his political patron, seized absolute power in Serbia and unleashed the nationalism that shook the foundations upon which Yugoslavia had been built.
Director Michael Simkin ; Producer Norma Percy