“It was the summer of 1992, in a small sports hall in Split, in a city on the Dalmation coast of Croatia. Refugees from the war in Bosnia were telling Washington Post journalist Peter Maass what they had seen as eyewitnesses to the unbelievable, to the overnight transformation of normal, decent human beings into remorseless killers. A farmer named Adem said that Serbs from a neighboring village had rounded up thirty-five men from his village and slit their throats. “They were killed,” Maass reported, “…by Serbs who had been their friends, people who had helped harvest their fields the previous autumn, people with whom they shared adolescent adventures and secrets, skinny-dipping in the Drina River on hot summer days, groping with the naughty girls of the village at night. All of a sudden, seemingly without reason, they had turned into killers.””
Posted on: Fri, 04 Oct 2013 05:32:02 +0000
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