Good People in an Evil Time: Portraits of Complicity and Resistance in the Bosnian War

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Svetlana Broz Laurie Kain Hart

Good People in an Evil Time

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Portraits of Complicity and Resistance in the Bosnian War

Svetlana Broz, Laurie Kain Hart, Ellen Elias-Bursac

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English

Other Press
17 January 2005

History; European history; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000; Genocide & ethnic cleansing; Religious intolerance, persecution & conflict; Ethnic studies

In the 1990s Svetlana Broz, granddaughter of former Yugoslav head of state Marshal

Tito, volunteered her services as a physician in war-torn Bosnia. She discovered

that her patients were not only in need of medical care, but that they urgently had

a story to tell, a story suppressed by nationalist politicians and the mainstream

media. What Broz heard compelled her to devote herself over the next several years

to the collection of firsthand testimonies from the war. These testimonies show that

ordinary people can and do resist the murderous ideology of genocide even under the

most terrible historical circumstances. We are introduced to Mile Plakalovic, a magnificent

humanist, who drove his taxi through the streets of Sarajevo, picking the wounded

up off the sidewalk and delivering food and clothing to young and old, even when

the bombing was at its worst. We meet Velimir Milosevic, poet, who traveled with

an actor and entertained children as they hid in basements to avoid the bombing and

gunfire, and we hear the stories of countless others who put themselves in grave

danger to help others, regardless of ethnic background.

Faced with a world in which

unspeakable crimes not only went unpunished but were rewarded with glory, profit,

and power, the Bosnians of all faiths who testify in this book were starkly confronted

with the limits and possibilities of their own ethical choices. Here, in their own

words they describe how people helped one another across ethnic lines and refused

the myths promoted by the engineers of genocide. This book refutes the stereotype

of inevitable natural enmities in the Balkans and reveals the responsibility of individual

actions and political manipulations for the genocide; it is a searing portrait of

the experience of war as well as a provocative study of the possibilities of resistance

and solidarity. The testimonies reverberate far beyond the frontiers of the former

Yugoslavia. This compelling book is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand

the reality on the ground of the ethnic conflicts of the late twentieth and the twenty-first

centuries.

By: Svetlana Broz
Edited by: Laurie Kain Hart
Translated by: Ellen Elias-Bursac
Imprint: Other Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 29mm
Weight: 794g
ISBN: 9781590511961
ISBN 10: 1590511964
Pages: 584
Publication Date: 17 January 2005
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Dr. Svetlana Broz, cardiologist, is Director of the NGO Garden of the Righteous in Sarajevo and the President of the Board of the First Children's Embassy in the World. She currently lives in Sarajevo. Laurie Kain Hart, Ph.D., is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at Haverford College. She is the author of Time, Religion and Social Experience in Rural Greece. Ellen Elias-Bursac teaches Croatian and Serbian languages in the Harvard University Slavic Department.

Reviews for Good People in an Evil Time: Portraits of Complicity and Resistance in the Bosnian War

"""Broz has collected stories of those who had refused to put their ethnicity ahead of their humanity.... This is precious testimony."" - The Boston Globe"""