What most people seem to forget is that Serbia, like any other country in the world, has ordinary, normal, non-ultranationalist civilians living in it. People who were by chance born there and are simply trying to live their lives the best they can, people who suffered due to the decisions of politicians they did not vote for. Calling all Serbs evil is like calling all Croats fascists, all Muslims terrorists, all Germans nazis, etc you get the idea.

My uncle was a UN blue helmet who was deployed in the Bosnian war. It wasnt his first deployment but Bosnia was his last. It was a completely traumatic experience. This is the only mission he was sent on that he still refuses to talk about.

Greetings from Bosnia and Herzegovina 🇧🇦 very well informed video. 85% of the population that lived through the war suffer from PTSD, often crippling. 60-70% of those born after the war also have PTSD, second hand. The governments are corrupt, barely functional, and play on old nationalism to cover up their own incompetence and reignite ideas of Serb independence. Young people just want to live normal lives so they leave for the West by the hundreds of thousands every year. Every family has someone who lives abroad, someone that died or was handicapped in the war, and someone permanently changed by it.

As a Muslim born in Serbia while this madness was taking place, I can say that politics are pure evil. Today I have a bunch of friends that are Serbs and I never had had hatred towards anyone. It still baffles me how people who lived together in peace for decades could suddenly want to kill each other off. My hometown could’ve turned into Srebrenica too but luckily it didn’t so we have to find a way to past this. Today Albanians, Bosnians, Serbs and Croats do the dirty work all over Europe often, often working together with no issues. I just hope anything like this never repeats…

Just realized this video was not monetized. Simon, this is exactly the type and length of video I'm most happy to support! What demonetized it this time, just the mere mention of the Nazis? Loving Warographics, even the Emu War!

I cannot express how grateful I am to my parents for moving us from Yugoslavia to Canada. We have family all over, Serbia, Croatia, Macedonia. It was terrifying for them, and there was nothing we could do. Thank you for bringing light to these events so eloquently and completely unbiased. Very well written and presented.

Before I retired, I would occasionally encounter people seeking asylum in America. I don’t remember if they were Bosnian or Serbian, but there were seven men. The look in their eyes reminded me of what my dad called “a thousand yard stare.” They had seen so much death and destruction, probably dealt out some as well. Of all the people I encountered, these seven men were the only ones who scared me. Its been over 20 years and I still remember the look in their eyes. When I was in Europe, because of the “unrest”, I wasn’t allowed to see what was Yugoslavia at the time. It’s sad that so many people died. I hope all the governments of the respective countries are able to sustain peace. I hope the people prosper and thrive.

I was born there and lived through those horrific events. To this day it's not easy to watch and remember. Left a huge dark hole in my heart. Incredible sadness impossible to explain. Thank you so much for excellent research and video.

One of the saddest echoes of the Yugoslav conflict is the material left behind and still in use. Landmines dot the country and pose a threat to anyone out for a game of football or a casual walk, and Yugoslav weapons like AK styled assault rifles were made in mass quantities, so many that you can even still buy them for quite cheap. Naturally these guns have fallen into the wrong hands countless times in places like the Middle East and Africa. Long after the war ended, there are still casualties being taken.

The area of former Yugoslavia has so much diversity and is such a beautiful place with generous, welcoming people. It has been the political chessboard for great powers since forever, and that has left the area scarred, but, interestingly, whenever ex-Yu people meet somewhere other than the Balkans, they can instantly recognize each other and get talking more easily than with anyone else. It sounds like a highly disfunctional family - cannot live together without conflict and bloodshed, but remain more interested in each other's business than in anybody else's outside the family.

My family immigrated to New York and San Francisco. Of course I was born in the US and I never really knew anything about my family's past. I have been watching videos and researching to learn since I started doing my family tree. I came in contact with one relative only to be told that nobody wants to talk about it. So here I am....thankyou for this insight. Much appreciated and well done.

“ When the war came, I did bad things, but after the war I thought nothing of doing bad things. I killed people, smuggled people, sold people” Niko Bellic

When I served in the Royal Danish Army I was with the UN-Forces in Yugoslavia. Seen some really bad shit. It will takes generations for people to begin forgive what they did to each others. Suffer from PTSD today and still have nightmares of burned out villages and wake up smelling the smell of dead people. But I would do it again if I had a choice. We helped with supplies and if our presence saved even just 1 child. Then it was worth the price.

1:00 - Chapter 1 - The creation of Yugoslavia 6:00 - Chapter 2 - Reunited one again 14:00 - Chapter 3 - Cracks in the walls 19:35 - Chapter 4 - Slovenia & croatia 27:05 - Chapter 5 - The bosnian wars 35:00 - Chapter 6 - The republic of kosovo 38:10 - Chapter 7 - Aftermath of civil war

Im originally from Mexico but I have neighbors who are from Bosnia and lived through the war, one of them was a soldier in the war and I remember one day I went over and talked to him and he told me that no video or book Can truely show how grim and evil the atrocities he had to either see or partake of as a Bosnian soldier in the war, he always told me he wished he nvr lived to see the stuff he saw during that time. Ever since then I’ve been so interested and fascinated about all this balkan and mainly Bosnian history. Ever since I’ve watched this video about the Bosnian war I know a lot more about this fascinating part of the world and the conflicts that happened. Thank you so much, it’s made me a lot more knowledgeable about things of Bosnia when I go over and chat with my neighbor abt what he experienced as a soldier

I've been to Slovenia, Croatia, North Macedonia, and Kosovo and found nothing but wonderful people just trying to live decent lives. My heart breaks for the trauma and devastation the region experienced and I hope beyond anything that the past doesn't repeat itself again.

Excellent job with this video. Covered everything at the right pace, and I think I speak for a lot of your audience when I say that we love longer videos like this(40+minutes)

I served in Bosnia with the. NATO security forces (SFOR) immediately after 9-11 (on literally the first commercial airliner to fly afterward). Even years after the war, there were still signs of it everywhere. The one that haunted me most was a depopulated village on one of our patrol routes. The buildings were mostly in good shape, but unoccupied, and the town looked untouched. Except for the elementary school. The wall of the school was lined with bullet holes, head height for a child, with a handful of other holes in a line head height for an adult. There was no record of what exactly happened there, and no investigation, because there was no one left to ask questions. The whole village, totally empty.

Thank you for covering this. I used to work with a bunch of Croats and Bosnians. I will say, they are the most appreciative people I've ever met of America. One Croat is the toughest woman, toughest person period, I have ever seen. She has incredible, yet sad stories of the river flowing red with blood, grenade blowing up parts of buildings they were in. She's still a great friend of mine, like a second mother.

Thank You for the in-depth but still brief review! That's the most complete one on the topic found on KZfaq.

For what is an extremely complex topic, this was a very well researched and balanced overview. Well done Fact Boi and team.

Love Warographics. Watched a 6-7 hour documentary on this whole timeline. There was alot of horrible happenings throughout by all sides. You managing to summarize this turbulent time with a 45min video is amazing to me. You hit ALL the main points and I came away understanding the big issues of these wars. Great job, channel, video. Keep up the great work.

Excellent video giving great clarity on an often forgotten topic.

I joined the British army in 2006 and I had an instructor who was a Commando Engineer and was active in Bosnia and Kosovo. A few years later he went back with the UN to help excavate the mass graves. He had his own combat PTSD as so many do but I will never forget the look in his eyes when he started to talk about the things civilians and conscripted teenage boys went through. The human race is generally f’dup but this is a particularly sour episode. I did my ten years and I’m a paramedic now. Happy to pick up drunks and not deal with war wounds anymore.

I'm from Bosnia, born in '93. Your video put things into perspective that I have not known before. Thank you, Simon!

Served on Peacekeeping duty in BiH 2001-2002. Beautiful country scarred deeply, both physically and spiritually. Thanks for your work on this video.

Love your videos, short but loaded with info.!

Your videos are some of the best documentary’s out there good work

The long, complicated and bloody history of this region is heartbreaking. Unfortunately, that bloody history isn't easily forgotten by the people. I hoped that the breakup of Yugoslavia would be the end, but I have a depressing feeling that we haven't seen the end of the region's bloodshed. Love the longer videos! Very thorough and fascinating video. Great job Simon and team! 😊 👏💯

Very well presented!

A huge thank you to Simon and company, as a kid growing up through all of this turmoil it was very hard to understand a lot of what was going on, this video is very succinct and covers a lot of the intricacies of such a terrible period. My understanding of this time is now much greater thank you.

Thank you for putting it all so simply

Excellent job on a very convoluted subject.

Wow, this was a ton of information, it certainly helped me to understand some of history of Yugoslavia, Thanks 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

Very good video. There are maybe 2 or 3 inaccuracies but all in all a very well researched potrayal of the war. And I really liked that you understood very well to potray the lead up from WW1, because a lot of people who have a go at the subject seem to forget the complexity of the historical lead up. I would say its the best potrayal of the wars in a youtube format.

My dad was actually a UN peacekeeper in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the mid-late 90s. He told me stories of how horrible it was to see so much ancient culture and architecture covered with bullet holes, and how pissed he was when the Pink Floyd concert in Berlin he had tickets to go to on leave got cancelled. He went to Bucharest and had the best beef stroganoff of his life instead.

An truly excellent video on a uniquely complicated topic. Definitely the clearest one I’ve seen on the topic. Same with the video on Transnistria. I love that this channel focuses more on history and politics rather than military maneuvers of the world’s conflicts. Very glad to see the addition of more maps which was sorely lacking in the Transnistria War video. But they do need to be labeled and if color coded, a color key is necessary.

According to my grandmother (RIP Luca, Christmas 2019), Tito was the glue that held the country together. As his health started to get worse in the early 70s many Yugoslavians, including my grandmother, aunts, mother and grandfather in 1973 (who was kicked out of Germany as "unwelcome" due to his high-profile organized crime dealings and sort of resulted in the rest of my family's migrants, despite being unaffiliated with the crimes and allowed to stay, blacklisted from becoming eligible for german citizenship despite having lived in the country for 49 years and my mother having been married for 18 of them) fled the country for Germany, Switzerland and Austria especially, as everyone knew the powderkeg would explode again without his leadership. For all his faults, he was an exceptionally charismatic statesman liked by almost everyone. Except Stalin.

A great video. I still remember military actions during the 10-day war in my town. One guy even gave an AK-47 into my hands so I could hold it and play with it, others showed me their weapons. I was a 7-year old kid. I didn't know what was going on until the air raid sirens went off, we ran for shelter and my mum told me what tf is going on. These were my most carefree times. My neighbor got killed by 2 civillian JNA simpathisers (that didn't survive either).

Thanks for a very informative video!!!

Very well presented.

My first deployment was with the UNPROFOR from January to August 1994. Having been in Iraq and Afghanistan, the experiences in Bosnia are the ones that haunt me to this day.

Thanks for making this video.

Expertly explained - not an easy job to get your head around all the details. Thank you.

Great video, really appreciate getting to hear the full context for a war that shaped my young life.

There was a Eastern European guy making moves in Liberty City that was involved in this war but... He went quiet

Great video! Thanks.

Great video! Thank u.

THIS!... is probably the most unbiased and well derived and paced story of my birth country, Jugoslavija. Well done!

After the Dayton Peace Accord, when 1st Armored Division crossed the Sava river it was somewhat peaceful for a few years. We disarmed alot of the militias and enforced the Zone of Seperation. Also it was the first time Americans and the Russians worked together in the same area doing peacekeeping operations. The Russians traveled to Ft Riley Kansas to train for the upcoming peacekeeping mission the late summer early fall in 1995. It was the first time Russian troops ever trained on American soil. I know I was there. I also deployed twice to Bosnia Dec of 95 IFOR till Dec of 1996, and 1997-1998 SFOR.

Simon is awesome and everyone who works with him

29:51 I had a friend, once, from Croatia. Zagreb. She was a child during the War/s, and was almost ...cleansed. She remembers, though, NATO intervention, largely where she was were many Americans. The intervention directly led to her and her family being spared genocide. She has always had a fondness for Americans and Europeans since, and as an adult is fluent in multiple languages and has become a successful fashion designer. We often do not think of the children caught in war. We often think of the soldiers - but the potential in each child is limitless. She is a living testament to that.

I've watched a huge catalogue of doccos on the conflict (I'm still struggling to comprehend the brutality of it) and I have to say this is probably the best I've watched. I tend to give Whistler's many, many channels a miss. But, credit where it's due - this is really well crafted: it's not easy making something so complex, so concise

I love how Macedonia getting independence was so low key it didn't even get mentioned here

Thank you for helping me understand this war. I was young preteens-early teens when this was going on and could never keep up with all the players involved. Couldn’t understand who was the bad guy and why. Didn’t understand why Americans were involved Or why other countries were mad about it. Now being older, it’s still one of the hardest wars to completely understand. But u did a great job helping me.

Fantastic video!

I was a refugee at the benining of the war in Croatia. Later I joined the Croatian Army and served for 21 years. Those were some bad times. Thank you Simon.

Really interesting, I was only around 11 years old in the UK when this happened and remember a lot of the news coverage but wasn't aware of the history behind it all.

Fantastic video thanks for posting. Very informative, I consider myself a bit of a history nerd but there is so much of it there it is impossible to know it all. Videos like this are such a good place to start learning about events I have very little knowledge of. You give the key players, names of organizations involved and most importantly some of the stand out dates and events of the conflict. Just went to the srebrenica massacre page on wikipedia, its going to make for grim reading I'm sure but I consider it very necessary to read about and learn from our past so we don't repeat such atrocities in the future.

As an ethnic Macedonian born in Yugoslavia I can say that it was working quite well for a while. My grandfather was a partisan and fought against the Nazis originally for an independent Macedonia but then Yugoslavia. I love all my former Yugoslavian brothers as we are basically all very similar by blood and culture.

Rest In Peace to those that passed away.

Good video 👍

My family was stationed in Wurzburg in the 90s and my dad was deployed to Kosovo. I was only 6 at the time and just know dad had to go away for a while to go help people and would probably be back by Christmas. Now that I'm older I'm seeking out as much info as possible to understand what was really going on in the world when I was a kid. Simon's video's are very helpful.

Great video and coverage of the history of the Balkans. I was in Bosnia with SFOR in 1997. I will always hope the region remains stable and peaceful.

My username is Slovenian but I’m a Croatian American and was unaware of a lot of this history. I just knew that Croats really didn’t like Serbs. Thank you for the detailed documentary.

I'm sure you have a team behind you but it's still impressive how you make such a large quantity of high quality videos.

I’ve just spent 5 days on holiday in Bosnia… these are the kindest and most welcoming people I’ve ever met… I like to think of it as the “Cambodia of Europe” Please make a video telling people about what Bosniaks have been through… specifically Sebrenica

I really liked how well the background was set up for this video, very well done. Going into the roots of this problem with the supression of national and sweeping the tentions under a rug of brotherhood and unity is something I hear to little of when it comes to discourse on this topic. I would however add that there were horrific war crimes done by both kosovo albanians and bosnian muslims alike which I feel was understated by this video.

I was in my early teens when the county broke up. Now as a Serbian I go to vacation to the beautiful Croatian coast traveling through the beautiful mountains of Bosnia. Meeting awesome people on the way. Every time I think about the beauty and diversity that Yugoslavia used to have. Then I see the mine fields and the bullet holes on houses in Bosnia and Hercegovina and get reminded of how evil and destructive extreme nationalism is.

If only I could be paid for every time someone says in a documentary, “Hitler was furious!”

Great great video, I learned alot

As a Jugoslav born on the start of the '80s, people are still filled with hatred around here, they were the same 60 years ago but had to be quiet under dictatorship. It never really worked, the whole "brotherhood and friendship" communists advertised - did not work.

The saddest part of this was that there was hatred between various Yugoslav refugee groups here in Australia. People who had escaped these horrors on the other side of the world had to endure hatreds in their new home. Hopefully time will heal!

Great work simon

Another new channel hosted by Simon? This man is slowly taking over KZfaq by the numbers. He will be officially crowned as Emperor of KZfaq, for a safe and sure viewing society!

I like to longer format video on a complex topic such as the Yougoslav war (which I know nothing about). Have you though about possibly making more long format videos or even a documentary length video on some topics like this one? Thanks!

Macedonia: “We managed to break away peacefully! Now for 20+ years of naming disputes”

Just found out you had this channel. Will be checking out content.

Simon Master of Geopolitical conflicts, Defence and Strategies, thank you for the reporting.

Good video, very well presented! Of course it lacks details because it's a very complicated subject, but for a short introduction in recent history of these parts of the world it is very well done.

I remember ending up talking to someone from that area online in some of the early days of the internet and apologizing for us sending troops there and bombing up their country. Luckily for her, she was in a part that wasn't getting hit with that stuff. I think that was the first time I started to realize that there were regular ass people stuck on either side of a war, which is one good reason why war is ridiculous and people should settle their international differences in more mature ways.

Great video

thanks to this video i got an A on my history test about Yugoslavia 🙏💞 This video is pure gold!

This is one of the best, if not the best video about this topic on YT. Well researched, objective, factually accurate and unbiased. I'm saying this as a Serb, who is born in Yugoslavia and wanted for this country to prosper. However, nationalist destroyed it and what we have now? Weak nationalistic tribes that barely function as a states. There will be hatefull comments from all sides, but don't pay attention, keep up good work!

My mother was a therapist for survivors of the genocide in Bosnia. I work alongside children whose families survived, it is part of their consciousness.

I absolutely LOVE your videos on multiple channels, Simon! One quick note: the ethnicities peopling the Balkans during the time of the Romans you spoke of were not Slavic. Rather, the Slavs migrated into the Balkans when the (western) Roman Empire fell. Before them, the Balkans were populated by Greeks, Illyrians, Paeonians, Thracians, Dacians and others.

This is the best overview, for this very complex topic, I've seen yet. Great work indeed!

"meanwhile over in kosovo"....lol that sentence will simply never have a positive ending

I have been watching your videos for a while now, and, being Croatian, I was hoping you were gonna cover this topic one day. Finally it happened and you really did it justice. It was comprehensive and well researched. Also, very importantly, it was impartial. This usually lacks when this topic is presented in the countries of former Yugoslavia. Sometimes it helps to get an outside perspecitve, especially when it is done with so much care and research, so thank you for that. It is heartbreaking and terrifying to see these horrors happening again in Ukraine. Every time this happens we think we have learned a lesson and we won't let it happen again. And every time it does.

i was 9 when it started, for us kids it seemed like it came overnight, but looking back signs were all over for at least 3 to 4 years even before war. things started to stir after tito died.. i was 11 when granate hit the road while we were at the middle of it crossing it to get to shelter, today i am handicaped for life, suffering severe ptsd, but still dont need meds, i was lucky i only got handicapped and mentaly screwed up coz of stress and trauma, but i got friends from croatia and bosnia who i met in mid 20ties in a support group for yyoung and child survivors. some of my friends went thru real hell for couple of years, some were in filtriation camps, wich basicaly were c camps. some are so damaged that still 30 years later they cant be intimate with anyone, some had to be removed from family coz part of torture and humiliation was forcing family members to do sexual things to each others, some were raped systematicaly , beaten, forced to hold hand granades in hands.. wars are product of sick disturbed minds followed by even more disturbed people, silent and normal majority gets caught in between. wars are product of toxic masculinty, false patriotism and labeling of people... wars are part of our lives since first cave man exit his cave took a bat and said me your leader follow me... we are stupid spiecie and we dont deserve to be on this planet and we prove it over and over again. 21st century, 2022 and here we go again, ukraine today, yesterday syria, day before iraq, libya, afghanistan, yugoslavia, ww2, ww1, civil war here and here.. same sick evil circle for centuries. and will continue to dance it for next million years, coz we are stupid and one day we will destroy ourselves if we dont break a circle.. we need to get free of labels, we all are humans, all these labels we put ar ehere to divide us, from race, gender, religion, nationality, sexual orientation this and that, borders are imagninary lines on maps made by us, they change every 6 to 10 decades when ever some old far*** at the end of his life decides he wants to be part of history, saviour, refuse to realise he is old, his time has gone, will be dead in next 15 to 20 years max and screws lived for everyone else who still needs to be here for next 60+ years coz they had a fckn god complex, napoleon complex... coz it is easier to hate. to destroy instead to love and build and progress....

The summary of the invasion of Yugoslavia is so heart breaking every time I hear it. The idea of a people (especially a people as diverse as Yugoslavia's) coming together to reverse an evil committed by its leadership (a pragmatic evil committed with the intent to avoid the country being crushed as it so thoroughly was just weeks later, granted) is such an inspiring concept, but had such immediately disastrous consequences.

It should be remembered that immediately after the end of world war II, hundreds of thousands of ethnic Germans who had been living in the area of Yugoslavia for centuries were forcibly expelled and murdered, in an often overlooked genocide. This was not unique to Yugoslavia, but occurred throughout eastern Europe, and was agreed to by the victorious allies. Many of these ethnic Germans were ironically opposed to Nazism before the war. I think it at least deserves a mention.

Excellent video! I suggest you cover Timur's conquest in Persia, An Lushan rebellion, Yellow Turban rebellion, Boxer rebellion, Three Kingdoms, or Turko-Russian wars in the 18th Century.

All in all, well done. For a very dificult and controversisl subject, quite neutral point of view.

the bosnian war was a bloody and really dangerous one. My mother actually fled bosnia in 1992 and met my father here in germany. Beggining in 1999 we yearly visited bosnia because her family still lived there. (ofc, me being 2 years old at that time ment i didnt really see anything there) But as i grew older it was really hard to miss that almost everywhere in bosnia you saw bullet holes, destroyed buildings and metal scrap laying around. It was especially bad in sarajevo with buildings still having bullet holes well into 2010-2015 still visible. After i questioned what happened here i got a quick answer of "something bad, thats why i came to germany" but to what extent that was is horrifying to find out. Goodspeed to you all, it is a scary world out there.

As always you have supplied unknown facts. Lived in Denver most of my life and none of the local or state history courses mention Peter II living here.

Simon, The bombing of the Chinese Embassy was not by mistake. The US had lost an Stealth Fighter over Bosnia shot down by the Serbs. The Serbs figured out that they could see the stealth fighter on the short band anti air missiles radar for a few seconds when it opened its bomb bay. The doors hanging down gave up the stealth and made it visible on radar as long as the bomb bay doors remained open. They purposely set out a tempting target the US fell for but had the spot surrounded by anti air missiles. They kept the anti air radars off as the fighter aproched so the F15's did not destroy them before the right moment. They made sure it was a night with full moon in an area with no back ground noise. This way they could scan the sky with telescopes and listening equipment for the jet. They identified it and just as it opened its bomb bay doors they turned on the multiple missle guiding radars and launched. As soon as missles had made contact and the stealth was going down the radars went off so F15's could not attack the ground crews. They dispatched cargo and heavy lift helicopters and crew to where the fireball came down. They scooped up all the parts they could find along the crash decent trail and the landing site that next 24 hours. The Serbs took photos with the crash and of the top secret parts for propaganda and then sold the wreckage to the Chinese before American forces could find it in Serb hands. Before Americans could send in a heavy lift helicopter with flanks protected by Apache & Cobra attack choppers, salvage crew watched over by an AC-130 flying death platform and F15 Eagles and F14 Tomcats eliminating SAM and Mig threats to retrieve the stealth or destroy it entirely the Surbs had already moved it. Not just moved it but handed that hot potato off before they got bombed over it. So the Surbs got war funds and more weapons while the Chinese felt they gained top secret stealth materials and cutting edge electronics info. The Chinese put it in the basement of the embassy until they could figure out how to get it out of the country or have scientist come to Yugoslavia to study it. They did not know multiple parts of the aircraft sent out a signal on a transmitting protocol the Chinese were unawaire of and the US invented to find it should it be lost. The US could not really ask for something back that was not officially in existence. So the US tried to arrange and verify no or a little staff as possible would be in the embassey. Then sent in a stealth bomber and dropped a single lazer guided bunker busting bomb to try and hit all the way to the basement to destroy the remaining parts of the downed craft and all its tech. Why do you think when you look at the before and after arial photos that only one specific part of the embassy was hit? Why did that side of the building correspond to the largest doors on the building? Lined up with the largest lower level room? They only dropped one bomb? It was powerful enough to destroy multiple floors and into the basement? This when most all other missions saturated a target with many bombs and ensured total destruction of building, bridge, rail, highway and such? Nothing else in the neighborhood was hit! Just one specific part of the embassy was cut out like a surgical strike without hitting any of the other very close buildings! There was no reasonable military Serb target for miles and miles around that even remotely resembled the building! It did not entirely work. That jet is how the Chinese leap frogged into building the Gongi-11 drone, Shenshen fighter then the Shenyang FC-31 and now the Chengdu J-20 as well as the shared info resulting in the Russian Sukoi-57 and T-50 Pak FA. This is not tin foil hat conspiracy theory. It has been released by a reporter using the US Freedom of Information Act. You should do a story on it!!!!!!

I use to work with a man from Albania. The one of the best people I have ever known, one day he talked to me about the shit he saw during the wars. The look in his eyes was the same i had seen in my Uncle when he talked about his time in Vietnam.

My grandad was a Serb, and he would weep whilst he watched Yugoslavia tear itself apart on the TV

This is one of those weird moments where I realize that some of my first memories of the world outside my home were hearing reports of NATO actions in Bosnia.