These tales have taught generations…that a smile may always be something other than a smile… (Sudetic, p.5). This short quotation from Sudetic is a great indication of the fact, that unresolved grievances, that date back to the times of the Ottoman rule , are in one way or the other a source of tension between the three communities living in Bosnia. But it would be wrong to suggest that it is only the unaddressed grievances that are the direct cause of the violence that erupts in the last pages of the book, when the massacre of Bosnian Muslims by the Bosnia Serbs takes place in the town of Srebrenica in eastern
These tales have taught generations…that a smile may always be something other than a smile… (Sudetic, p.5). This short quotation from Sudetic is a great indication of the fact, that unresolved grievances, that date back to the times of the Ottoman rule , are in one way or the other a source of tension between the three communities living in Bosnia. But it would be wrong to suggest that it is only the unaddressed grievances that are the direct cause of the violence that erupts in the last pages of the book, when the massacre of Bosnian Muslims by the Bosnia Serbs takes place in the town of Srebrenica in eastern