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The Serbs
continued
their pillag-
ing and mur-
der even as
they with-
drew from
Kosovo. The
1 million
Kosovar
Muslims who
fled lived
through a
human
tragedy of
enormous
proportions.

than attacks on and harass-
ment of Muslims began.
After World War I the
"Kingdom of Serbia, Croatia
and Slovenia" was estab-
lished, thus bringing to-
gether all the Slav
communities in the region.
Bosnia-Herzegovina also be-
came part of the kingdom. In
1929, the running of the
state, now called the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, fell into the hands of
Orthodox Christian Serbs. Until World War II, Bosnian Muslims had
their goods and property stolen and were kept under close watch.