The Bosnian War: 1992 - 1995

If you have patiently listened to the first 2 episodes of this series, I hope you feel educated about the long history of this region.  The previous hours have been a preparation to help explain what happened in the 1990s.  Yugoslavia is breaking apart in 1991 and there is growing tension between the different Yugoslav republics.  The politicians have started to prey on their citizens' worst fears about each other.  Hundreds of thousands of people will have to live through the worst European war since the end of World War II. And international diplomacy will be challenged to rise to the call, and fail over and over again.  It is in Bosnia that we will learn the term 'ethnic cleansing' and relearn the word genocide, and learn that despite the promise to never let that happen again, when put to the test, we are more than willing to watch from the sidelines.

Om Podcasten

This is the podcast that started with me wanting to learn more about things that interest me; crazy and important things that happened In the 20th century; things that don’t always get the attention to detail that they deserve. I dig into the story behind what happened, and offer an abridged version of the history and events that became the story. As each series develops and I think about what to cover in the future, I have come to realize that I want to find out what can be learnt from the last 100+ years. Each event has lessons for us today, if we want to learn them.