title: POST-WORLD WAR II FORCED REPATRIATIONS TO YUGOSLAVIA: GENOCIDE'S LEGACY FOR DEMOCRATIC NATION BUILDING
abstract: This paper examines the long-term challenges to democratic nation building that have resulted from the forced repatriation of hundreds of thousands of Croatian civilians and military personnel to Yugoslavia at the end of World War II. Data suggest that violations of the Geneva Conventions led to the death of many of these asylum seekers at the hands of Tito's Partisans in death marches and mass executions. Through analysis of historical documents, newly released evidence of mass graves, and inte
journal: International Journal of Social Sciences