Bosnia uh you've got to hold Iraq together because of the oil
in Bosnia with sponsor sisters in the U.S who could provide them with
or Bosnia or Kosovo, I've seen pretty horrific things.
In Bosnia they were supposed to be there for one year.
You experienced Bosnia in a different way, and I think I'm safe in saying you had a life-altering experience.
We get into Bosnia eventually, and we arrive to the base camp that we're going to be setting up.
And to really understand Bosnia is to understand how awful the human race can actually go.
"I'm from Bosnia. And we all love you in Bosnia.
And when you mentioned Bosnia, the Serbs, when it was going, there was a newspaper article I read a long time ago,
Now the Bosnian refugee cohort was relatively highly educated.
I mean in Bosnia that was helped by the Dayton Peace Accords.
Like with Bosnia, with Kosovo, with Rwanda.
multiple deployments to Bosnia, Africa, South America.
And so in Bosnia, after the war-- and without getting into anything grim.
It's almost entirely Bosnian Muslims.
It mostly serves the Bosnian Muslim community.
My translator was a Bosnian Muslim named Isla.
That was Bosnia. With the genocide in Bosnia, what I had previously associated as racist violence, I began seeing
fifteen years ago Bosnia was in the midst of a horrific ethnic cleansing The
fought in Bosnia and really felt that that was an important cause.
So I'd covered wars in Bosnia and Iraq and Iran, and Iraq and Afghanistan, all those places.
We both were deployed to Bosnia in the '90s.
to then do our convoys into Bosnia.
But all of that was happening in Bosnia.
through the territory of Prijedor in Bosnia.
And you're welcome in Bosnia.
Got offered a ride by a Bosnian migrant trucker who had a vehicle recovery-- big vehicle recovery
I worked for IRC in Bosnia during the Bosnia conflict.
We still go back to Bosnia every other year.
which we heard during the eruptions in Bosnia when Yugoslavia was falling apart and the Serbs were trying
It's not just against Serbs or Bosnians.
So Marines in small units in Bosnia love the phone.
The MFI-- the Kiva partner in Bosnia and Herzegovina at the time was a branch of an international women's organization called Women for Women International that do amazing work in some
They're in Afghanistan and Rwanda and Bosnia.
So I assumed she was a Bosnian Muslim, forgetting the giant pig in her Kiva photo.
So I just assumed she's a Bosnian Muslim.
Another microfinance institution there in Bosnia named Partner I visited.
Translating and Interpreting War Crimes Trials for Bosnian/Serbian/Croatian.
military forces as they did in Bosnia to degrade the militaries of these, of the states that undertake the perpetration of genocide. Target military facilities, munitions, forces, stay
I asked the President of Bosnia, who knew Milosevic very, very well, would Milosevic ever have begun the genocide against the Bosnians had there been a bounty system in place? And
face of kosova from Afghanistan to Bosnia and Herzegovina nearly 40 000
credit began in particular in Afghanistan and Bosnia and then we work with other organizations who specialize at in the countries where we was going
the former Soviet Union in Kosovo and Bosnia and those experiments had happier outcome and and and one of the things we
you had Wars like Kosovo and Bosnia where again the United States did not have to intervene our the interests at stake were important arguably there were
Congo we try and get involved in Bosnia and as a result things change. The size of the groups that are political units has just been growing,
It's interesting. My Bosnia experience was probably the most intense shock trauma event that had a direct linear line to this book
And we were going out into these thick woods of northern Bosnia and set up shop around-- there were a bunch of troops cruising around.
And she said, "of Bosnia?"
Serbian people actually had that tuning fork because before the Bosniaks were actually
So this established Croatia, Bosnia, and Serbia as separate national entities.