Repression drives nonviolent movements to armed rebellion
Evidence
In Kosovo, where seeds of the Bosnian genocide were planted, the Albanian-Serb conflict is on the verge of mass violence. After ten years of repression, some Albanians have abandoned the nonviolent resistance and joined an armed rebellion. Special Serbian police have carried out retaliatory atrocities, which have increased support by Albanians for armed resistance. … Father Sava offers a lonely and profound contrast to the Serbian Orthodox hierarchy and to Serbian police who praise Serbia’s crusade to protect Europe from Islam. The international community seems as indecisive over Kosovo in 1998 as it was over Bosnia in 1992? — Michael A. Sells, The Bridge Betrayed, 32
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to the cycling of grievance-to-rebellion dynamics seen in colonial and postcolonial resistance literature. — connects to: Repression of nature throughout civilization provokes revenge in social rebellion. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1469; Armed non-state groups emerge to replace states that abandon caretaking for pure repression — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 652; Organized leftists helped a mining rebellion outgrow police control — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 191 (+4 more)