By Dusan Kecmanovic
Kecmanovic bargains with the phenomenon of ethnonationalism, either as a extensive, all over the world obstacle and as a key aspect to the struggles within the former Yugoslavia. As within the former Yugoslavia, the increase of ethnonationalistic sentiments and attitudes coincided with the transition from a state-and party-run affair to a brand new, post-communist kind of govt and society. Drawing upon his own stories in Sarajevo, Kecmanovic offers a different view of the conflict.In a mode available to scholars and basic readers, he strains the changes of best ideas, price structures, behavioral styles, and perspectives of individuals in instances of serious ethnic tensions. from time to time approximately novelistic, the ebook examines epidemic ethnonationalism and person manifestations resembling violence towards participants of alternative teams, ideals that ethnic modifications are genetic, a necessity to aggrandize or even manufacture adjustments among groups.
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Have circumstances made them this way, or has their madness, which used to be hidden, created these circumstances in order to allow them to feel more at ease? Let me say straightaway that the people I see around me, in the street and at the speaker’s podium in Parliament, do not seem mentally ill, at least in most cases. But are they mentally healthy? They would be if the fact that a person is not mentally ill were proof of his sanity. But it is not. The absence of illness is certainly a necessary but not a sufficient condition for someone to be mentally healthy.
Each was guarded by an armed young man from the local neighborhood. He would check the identity of all passersby, and it was up to him whether a person was allowed into “his” territory. One early June afternoon, Osman and I were drawing near Kosovo Hospital. At a routine checkpoint, the man on duty asked for our identity cards. Osman’s was given back to him at once, with a benevolent smile and thank you, which for these sentries, who are usually gruff and full of themselves, was quite unusual. He looked at my 24 Ethnic Times identity card for a very, very long time and then started to ask questions that were clearly answered by my identity card: date and place of birth, address, and so on.
In order to reach the territory controlled by the Croats some fifty kilometers south of Sarajevo, I had to cross a narrow strip of one or two kilometers that was held by the Serbs. ” I waited ten hours for that authorization in complete uncertainty, and then stopped waiting. In the end, a Serbian intelligence officer took me to Croatian territory for a few hundred German marks. I hitchhiked from the border to the town of Kiseljak and spent the night there with the brother of a colleague from the clinic, who was married to a Croat.
