Janine di Giovanni
Before we left with a group, moving up the hill to the front, Jon said that he was proud of all of them when they left, but he felt bad sending some of them off. He new, maybe, that some were going to their deaths. You could always tell, he said, who was going to make it and who was not, by some strange look in their eyes.
Srebrenica massacre
This is what it feels like to watch someone else's agony: no matter how many times you listen and record someone's story, no matter how many refugees you see crossing over a mountaintop wearing plastic bags on their heads to protect themselves from the freezing rain--you do not get used to it.
He dropped me at the hotel and screeched off, as though my desire to get to Serbia or Montenegro were contagious.
You can forgive but not forget... we think that love is greater than hate... but it is a small step to go from hate to love; love to hate. It is a very thin line.
--Zeljko Kopanja, editor, in Banja Luka, August 2000
10,615 persons, out of whom 1,601 were children, were killed in Sarajevo. More than 50,000 persons were wounded, a great number of whom remain invalids. The siege of the city lasted from May 2, 1992 to February 26, 1996 or 1,395 days, which is the longest siege in the modern history of mankind.
--Suada Kapic, from a "war" map of Sarajevo, 1996
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