Iraq and yugoslavia?

Question

Anybody know how the two compare?

Answer 1

Both Iraq and Yugoslavia had similarities as well as differences. Both had sectarian conflicts. Yugoslavia had a more stable government and a leader who was in control of the country (Milosevich, in fairness to him). Iraq's government is totally unstable with a weak prime minister (Maliki had only a semblance of control in Baghdad, but little influence in the rest of the country). Yugoslavia's sectarian conflict was government-sponsored, with Milosevich approving and encouraging the ethnic-cleansing of Serbia, Croatia, and Kosovo. This made Milosevich responsible of genocide. Iraq's sectarian conflict is beyond Maliki's control. It is being perpetrated by the different militias who are all vying for power. Yugoslavia's sectarian divide existed along well defined geographical boundaries like Serbia and Kosovo. The conflict was resolved by awarding Croatia and Kosovo's independence from Yugoslavia. Iraq's sectarian divide are mixed up without definite geographical demarcations within the Iraqi territory, with the exception of the Kurds who have their own well defined territory. The rest of the sectarian divide are mixed up within the same neighborhoods. The only way is to carve up the whole Iraqi territory into several regions, then facilitate mass exodus of the sectarian divide into their own allocated regions. This is far more difficult to accomplish, because of the uneven land-distribution of oil reserves on the different regions (some regions are rich in oil deposits, while others are not).

Answer 2

Both came out of the ruins of the Ottoman Empire. 2. Both are artificially created states in the aftermath of WWI. Yugoslavia, the Union of Southern Slavs was created in 1918, ( I think ) and disparate ethnic , national, linguistic and religious people were grouped into one empire. Iraq was created by the British after WWI as a kingdom to King Fiesel partly due to his cooperation in leading the Arab Revolt against the Turks under British leadership in WWI. He was supposed to have been given Damascus but the French held on to that territory instead.
Iraq was another country created by artificial and arbitrary boundaries that did not reflect a true national identity.
3. Both countries required strong leaders and interior police to keep the factions and sects in check. 4. No Iraqi or Yugoslavian had an strong national allegiance. 5. Both slipped into civil war after a political vacuum created by the death or removal of the leader. 4. both countries have a long history of old scores to settle and sectarian hatred and violence.
For the Shiites there will always be Karvala and the death of the martyr Hussein. For the Yugoslavs there will always be Kosovos in the 1300s the destruction of the old Serbian Kingdom. Just for starts - After Fiesel, Iraqs strong man was Saddam, After WWII Yugolsavia's strong man was TITO, probably the ONLY real Yugoslav.