Sudetic's Book Report

atrocities committed by on community on the other, in the past, even ancient past, still are very much present in the hearts and minds of the local people in Bosnia. While reading the beginning of Sudetic book, I had an impression that he is introducing the reader to a mystic land of legends and stories. The significance of this is that these old stories usually revolved around, un resolved or a Sudetic puts it” un avenged”, deaths …of “fathers and mothers, uncles and aunts, and grandfathers and grandmothers who died in the violence..”, where most of the time the perpetrator was from the ” other “ ethnic community (Sudetic, p.5). As Sudetic writes, at the beginning of his book, the storytellers”…have discreetly pointed out killers still living within shouting distance, still working their fields ….still smiling as they stroll by the house on their way …show more content…
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