In the first source the leader of Serbia, Milosevic; the reason for the genocide in the wars against Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo; he was accused of crimes against humanity. Milosevic sits on a bed, in prison, saying “Finally, an ethically clean world!” The cartoonist's perspective in drawing him was sarcastic. Its purpose is to show the irony of Milosevic's situation. He is in an “ethically clean world,” but that is because he is in prison, far from civilization. Milosevic was put in prison because he was pursuing his and his people's beliefs and values in a very ultra-nationalistic way. Due to the breakup of Yugoslavia, many of the different ethnic groups did not share the same language, religion, beliefs and values. This has caused much conflict and ongoing unrest between these groups. When they broke up, tensions increased and war was declared. During the war Milosevic targeted certain groups of people and called it ethnic cleansing, but in reality he was denying that what he was actually doing was starting a genocide. The second source is a quote from General Romeo Dallaire, commander of the UN forces....
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