As a Bosnian Muslim, one question has followed me my entire life, a question I still cannot answer. Why were our lives considered so irrelevant during the war and genocide of the 1990s?
The world watched as thousands of us were erased: murdered, brutalized, raped, tortured and scattered in pieces across our country. For decades, I have tried to understand what happens in the human mind when it sees others not as people, but as prey, as objects so stripped of humanity that killing them becomes so easy.
And now, reports and mounting evidence suggest that Bosnian Serb nationalists were not the only ones who saw us as less than human.
There are serious allegations, some supported by testimonies before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslav
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