Gazimestan speech

The Gazimestan speech was a speech given on 28 June 1989 by Slobodan Milošević, the president of Serbia at the time. It was the centrepiece of a day-long event to mark the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Kosovo (1389), the defeat of the medieval Serbian state at the hands of the Ottoman Empire and the subsequent annexation of most of Serbia's territory. The speech was delivered to a huge crowd gathered at the place where the battle had been fought, by the Gazimestan monument on the Kosovo field. It came against a backdrop of intense ethnic tension between ethnic Serbs and Albanians in Kosovo and increasing political tensions between Serbia and the other constituent republics of the then Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia caused by the "anti-bureaucratic revolution".

Gazimestan speech

The Gazimestan speech was a speech given on 28 June 1989 by Slobodan Milošević, the president of Serbia at the time. It was the centrepiece of a day-long event to mark the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Kosovo (1389), the defeat of the medieval Serbian state at the hands of the Ottoman Empire and the subsequent annexation of most of Serbia's territory. The speech was delivered to a huge crowd gathered at the place where the battle had been fought, by the Gazimestan monument on the Kosovo field. It came against a backdrop of intense ethnic tension between ethnic Serbs and Albanians in Kosovo and increasing political tensions between Serbia and the other constituent republics of the then Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia caused by the "anti-bureaucratic revolution".