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reaction: safe area gorazde

I'm baaaaaaaaaack! After taking a long hiatus due to the Upper School Musical, Brigadoon, I am back for good to blog about everyone's favorite topic, Globalization in our small little Scandanavian countries! But rather than taking my time on the latter topic, I've decided to write about my reaction to the Bosnian war circa 92' and Joe Sacco's comic book, "Safe Area Gorazde." First of all, Wow. Although, I was alive during the war, I really had no idea what was going on. From what I knew, I believed the war to have been another "friendly" Cold War, rather than a brutal bloodshed of neighbors in combat with one another. Interestingly enough, the start of the war? Nationalism. Bosnia was a country mixed with Bosnians, Serbs, and Croats. All three different nationalities were placed among different religious sects, Orthodox Christians, Muslim, and Catholic. Doesn't this sound like another religious war? Eventually the war turned into a genocide, clearing out and killing as many Muslims as possible. Like Rwanda, the Congo and other countries that have experienced Ethnic Cleansing, Bosnia was extremely violent and brutal. Along with brutality and rape, Serbs tried to do whatever possible in order to get rid of their “enemies.” But the question is who is the “enemy?” Believe it or not… neighbors and friends. In Sacco’s graphic novel, he emphasized that the Serbs were not just random killers, but rather had intimate relationship with whom they were killing. Most of the people knew who their killers were, whether they were close friends and neighbors, or just acquaintances’. The point is, the war was more on a personal level.