Versagen, Wegschauen und neue Weltbilder
Failure, Looking away and New World Views

Interview with the writer Peter Schneider about war and genocide in Bosnia 25 years ago

Summary/Abstract: It is a quarter of a century since the war in Bosnia reached its climax (Srebrenica)and finally its end (Dayton). To this day, however, the wars in Yugoslavia leavemany open questions and, above all, a shameful picture of international inabilityand unwillingness to act. The writer Peter Schneider is one of the few Germanintellectuals who intensively studied the developments in the Balkans during the1990s. In this interview, he describes how his world of thought changed as a resultof very personal experiences as an observer on the ground in besieged Sarajevo.Additional excerpts from previously unpublished diary entries provide a vividpicture of the events of that time.

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