The Key to My Neighbor's House: Seeking Justice in Bosnia
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Neuffer, Elizabeth, PUBLISHER: Picador USA, Examining competing notions of justice in Bosnia and Rwanda, award-winning "Bosong>toong>n Globe" correspondent Elizabeth Neuffer convinces readers that crimes against humanity cannot be resolved by talk of forgiveness, or through the more common recourse ong>toong> forgetfulness As genocidal warfare engulfed the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, the international community acted ong>toong>o late ong>toong> prevent unconscionable violations of human rights in both countries. As these states now attempt ong>toong> reconstruct their national identities, the surviving victims of genocide struggle ong>toong> come ong>toong> terms with a world unhinged. Interviewing victims and aggressors, war orphans and war criminals, Serbian militiamen and NAong>TOong> commanders, Neuffer explores the extent ong>toong> which genocide erodes a nation's social and political environment, just as it destroys the individual lives of the aggressor's perceived enemies. She argues persuasively that only by achieving justice for these people can domestic and international organizations hope ong>toong> achieve lasting peace in regions destroyed by fratricidal warfare.