"Love and Obstacles" and Serbrenica: Ten Years On are both interesting stories about the Bosnian Genocide. In both stories th reader is able to see the perspective of victims who had to leave and stayed in Serbrenica during the Bosnian conflict. These stories reminded me of a class that I took in high school about the genocide and for a couple of weeks the class covered the Bosnian Genocide. Reading through the facts about the genocide did not make me realize how real and impacting this event was. It was a film that we watched in class that showed how the people of Sebrenica had lived through these events. The movie was called "Shot Through the Heart" and it is based on a true story. The movie was about two childhood friends who eventually grew up to be olympic sharp-shooters and how they were made into enemies once the Bosnian War started. One of them is recruited by the army to be a sniper and the other is forced to make a decision to leave home because he is Muslim. At the end they both end up having to make a decision whether they should kill each other because of the sides they are on. It is great movie and the things that happen will really make anyone surprised that something like this happened not to long ago.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0171741/
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