Alenka: What happened here never was about ethnicity or religion. That's a fake excuse used by the politicians who started the war.

Suzana: During Tito's time, ethnicity wasn't an issue.

Kada: Why did they destroy mosques? If we believe in God, we basically believe the same way-Orthodox and Muslims. Before the war, it wasn't like this. Did somebody create that feeling? I wonder.

Nurdzihana: I've never accepted ethnic divisions! The way I was raised, we didn't say someone belongs to this or that ethnic group. The atrocities I witnessed had no ethnicity, no religion. We lived together until the day before.

Kristina: I've never in my life wanted to divide people into groups.

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" Those people have been fighting for centuries." We read that sentiment in Washington newspapers. We heard it on the streets in Vienna. We listened to it in London speeches. We watched it tragically acted on by key leaders in the international community. "Those people" obviously had a problem-and it was their problem, their decidedly Balkan problem.

Some saw in Yugoslavia a basic impossibility: people of different religious faiths, languages, and alphabet building their lives in harmony.