‘Dark Past in Balkan War Intrudes on New Life’
This caught my eye. We’ve been discussing cultural and religious causes of violence in Afghanistan, and I think it’s valuable to remember how recently we’ve seen horrifying atrocities between educated, modern, Europeans.
“Dark Past in Balkan War Intrudes on New Life”
Victims and witnesses from the camps, quoted in court documents, say that while wearing a Croatian uniform, twin knives strapped to her belt and a boot, Ms. Basic carved crosses into prisoners’ foreheads. They accuse her of slitting one man’s throat and forcing others to drink from the dead man’s wound.
One witness says Ms. Basic made him drink gasoline, then set fire to his hands and face. Others say she forced them to crawl — half-naked, a knotted rope in their mouths and a Croatian soldier on their back — across a floor littered with glass.