#bosnia

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 Heleta

#bosnia-and-herzegovina #bosnian-war #democracy #government #history

Ne, nisu jučer ubili majku, srušili kuću. Ubili su, babo, moje djetinjstvo, mladost, snove, sav moj život. ↗

— Nura Bazdulj-Hubijar

#bosnian-war #childhood #childhood-suffering #life #war

I was with the U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on the day that Srebrenica fell, which happened to be a huge historical turning point in the Bosnian war. ↗

— Michael Ignatieff

#day #fell #happened #historical #huge

I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth. ↗

— Paddy Ashdown

#i #i do #ready #reconciliation #think

Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all; there was this sense of guilt, and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years. ↗

— Paddy Ashdown

#become #behind #bosnia #cannot #deeper

My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut. ↗

— Paddy Ashdown

#before #bosnia #closing #could #create

It depends on the situation. I mean, on one hand there's the argument that people should be left alone on the other hand, there's the argument to wade in a stop slaughters in places like Bosnia and Kosovo and what we probably should have done in Rwanda. ↗

— Jello Biafra

#argument #bosnia #depends #done #hand

Everything changed in Bosnia, when General Wesley Clark proved that you could fight a war with high- level precision air strikes and a bare minimum of ground action. ↗

— Joe Bob Briggs

#air #bare #bosnia #changed #clark

He was driven by the idea that when Milosevic grabs a part of Bosnia, Croatia should get a piece of it, too. ↗

— Stjepan Mesic

#croatia #driven #get #grabs #idea

I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia. ↗

— Fatos Nano

#bosnia #forget #happened #hopeful #i