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By BARBARA SHERWOOD
Rappahannock New* Contributing Writer
To begin, I am not a scholar, nor a historian, nor even strongly political, but I am human. And my humanity has been deeply touched by my increased awareness, through first-hand accounts, of the criminal situation in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
The book Sarajevo: A War Journal is a view of Sarajevo and the genocide its citizens experience, through the eyes of one of its own, from the inside. The daily journal entries of Zlatko Dizdarevic, one of Central Europe’s most respected journalists, date from April 25, 1992 and Aug. 18,1993.
This journal has revealed a people of integrity, love, humor, forgiveness, honesty, and incredible perseverance—the Sarajevans—as they live and die in an absurd and criminal nightmare, and wonder why the rest of the civilzed world does not respond.
As Dizdarevic writes: “Everything the future may bring is already within us...in the strength to persevere, the will to survive...Here, no one lies to anyone...so there is hope.”
This journal is an insider’s view, not the one we receive reading our newpapers. This view tells the real stories, the human ones: about aid that never seems to reach the city, about stark lies, about the truths these people can see for themselves,
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