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Essay / Serbia - 1191
After reading “The Science of Hate” The Chronicles of Higher Education, I was surprised to know that the movie “Inside” was fiction because the characters looked like people ordinary people who were struggling with all these emotions. about war crimes and how they affected Serbia. “Who is to blame” is the main topic I took away from the film. Throughout the film, two of the research project participants shared their thoughts, stories and insights about past war crimes in Serbia. War crimes in Serbia are a complex issue that Serbs, Slovenes, Bosniaks and Croats face every day. Serbia has been held responsible for war crimes (committed between 1990 and 1999) in the above-mentioned countries and the Serbian people are faced with the dilemma: either admit to these crimes or completely ignore them as if nothing happened. was. Between the two participants primarily shown in the film, both participants have different emotions towards Serbian war crimes based on their experiences, stories told or heard to them, and their own research into Srebrenica. The first man in the interview showed sympathy towards the families who lost loved ones, but he was also guilty because he was protected from the harsh realities of being at war or being killed at a young age by his mother. In the film, he shows a photo to the other participants and explains the photo by saying: "While I was fleeing Serbia with my mother and my aunt, I wore makeup and a scarf to disguise myself as a woman and on the same day I saw two young boys being taken away. These two boys were ultimately considered “missing.” The statement he made is evidence showing that Serbs were also victims of war crimes and not just perpetrators... middle of paper... their country. The woman in the film had done extensive research on different theories that she believed were part of the war and the first man was recounting his own experiences and some of the stories he had heard or heard. The narrative accounts of the two participants in the film are actually voices that NGOs should seek out rather than forcing Serbia to accept a certain history. Despite my disappointment with NGOs, I appreciated the argument made by the author and she understood that when studying issues such as war crimes, one must understand the socio-economic status of that country, its culture and its class level. Serbs are well aware of the horrific events that have occurred in their country and the need for their stories to be heard, but transitional justice practitioners have not been able to capture these voices because they do not understand the cultural basis of the Serbs..