"I never wanted an independent Bosnia. I wanted Yugoslavia. That is my country."
Emir Kusturica
“Every human generation has its own illusions with regard to civilization; some believe they are taking part in its upsurge, others that they are witnesses of its extinction. In fact, it always both flames and smolders and is extinguished, according to the place and the angle of view.”
― Ivo Andrić, The Bridge on the Drina
"Save yourselves brothers, who wants and who can! Those who stay will die!"
The Yugoslavian Civil War of the 1990s is one of the most poorly understood events of recent history. Beginning with the 10-Day War in the Summer of 1991, a brief conflict that killed under 100