Det var nemlig Milosevic, der i sin tid berøvede Voivodina dets selvstændighed med det formål at sikre sig flertallet i Jugoslaviens kollektive statspræsidium. Bølge efter bølge af rodløse fordrevne fra andre egne af Serbien bosatte sig her, hvilket forstyrrede den komplekse etniske balance, og de har frem til i dag ikke rigtig kunnet slå rødder, fordi man også marginaliserede dem socialt og politisk.
The problem is something quite different: it is that Milosevic deprived Vojvodina of its autonomy by force in order to secure himself a majority in Yugoslavia’ s collective state presidency, and that wave after wave of people uprooted and expelled from other parts of Serbia were settled there, thus upsetting the complex ethnic balance, and have to date been socially and politically marginalised, unable to put down real roots.