Anti-Serb sentiment
negative views, prejudice or discrimination towards Serbs
Anti-Serb sentiment or Serbophobia (Serbian: србофобија, romanized: srbofobija) refers to negative attitudes, prejudice or discrimination towards Serbs as an ethnic group. Historically, it has been a basis for the persecution, ethnic cleansing, and genocide of ethnic Serbs.
A distinctive form of anti-Serb sentiment is anti-Serbian sentiment, which can be defined as hostility to, prejudice towards, or discrimination against Serbia as a nation-state for Serbs. Additionally, another form of anti-Serb sentiment is discrimination or bias against Republika Srpska, the Serb-majority entity in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Among the most widely-known historical proponents of anti-Serb sentiment was the 19th- and 20th-century Croatian Party of Rights. The most extreme elements of this party later became the Ustaše in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, a Croatian fascist organization that came to power during World War II and instituted racial laws that specifically targeted Serbs, Jews, Roma and political dissidents. Their actions culminated in the genocide of Serbs and other minority groups that lived in that lived in the territory of the then-Independent State of Croatia.
The opposite of Serbophobia is Serbophilia.
History
Before World War I
Turks and Albanians in Ottoman Kosovo Vilayet
Anti-Serb sentiment in the Kosovo Vilayet grew in the aftermath of the Ottoman-Serb and Ottoman-Greek conflicts during the period between 1877 and 1897. With the Battle of Vranje in 1878, thousands of Ottoman-Albanian troops and Albanian civilians were expelled into the Eastern part of Ottoman-held Kosovo Vilayet.
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