My mom and dad refused to believe that people who had grown up together in peace and friendship, had gone to the same schools, spoken the same language, and listened to the same music, could overnight be blinded by ethnic hatred and start to brutally kill one another. They simply didn't accept as true that less than two years of a multiparty system and competition for power could poison people's brains so much.
Savo HeletaTags: politics friendship power peace war ethnicity
The Red Cross, our last hope, had left us to starve.
Savo HeletaTags: hunger starve humanitarian-intervention red-cross
The story Grandpa told us helped me realize that people cannot be divided into groups by ethnicity, religion, or any other feature, only into groups of good, bad, and indifferent people.
Savo HeletaTags: religion good bad ethnicity indifferent not-my-turn-to-die savo-heleta
Still, I never heard him say that he hated or wanted to hurt or kill someone for all the horrific things that had been happening to him and his family.
Savo HeletaTags: humanity integrity character righteousness dignity not-my-turn-to-die savo-heleta
I realize that what happened in Bosnia could happen anywhere in the world, particularly in places that are diverse and have a history of conflict. It only takes bad leadership for a country to go up in flames, for people of different ethnicity, color, or religion to kill each other as if they had nothing in common whatsoever. Having a democratic constitution, laws that secure human rights, police that maintain order, a judicial system, and freedom of speech don't ultimately guarantee long lasting peace. If greedy or bloodthirsty leaders come to power, it can all go down. It happened to us. It can happen to you.
Savo HeletaTags: politics history war democracy religion government leadership bosnia bosnian-war bosnia-and-herzegovina
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