I spent a little over a year in Bosnia in 1997. It was remarkable and extremely unnerving to see entire neighborhoods, eerily similar to middle-class American neighborhoods, reduced to squalor. Families roasted animals over spits in their yards, had burn barrels in the living rooms of their 4-bedroom homes for heat, and were only beginning to have some degree of calm. One family offered us their young daughter (she was probably 9 or 10 years old) for a while in exchange for supplies. Being American soldiers, we made it quite clear to the father we did not approve (I am certain he got our message).
It was a very desperate situation. Of utmost importance is the description by Selco of the normal lives these people led until the rapid descent of their society into anarchy.
The man speaks absolute truth, I saw it myself.
Bunp for later. Was just working with a guy from Bosnia/Serbia (he had lived in both places). He made some comment about how “No one needs 1000 rounds of ammunition. They should just go house to house and get them and the guns. That’s what they did after our war.”
I told him that “Thank God I live in the U.S. of A. - where it is a God-given right to have guns and thousands of rounds of ammunition. And if they ever came door to door - I’d probably be dead, but their would be a lot of them dead too.”
I’m guessing the next time they have a war over there and under seige it will be even harder without families having the proper firearms for defense, hunting, trading.