That is far before my time. [He doesn't know that much about the history of other countries, only sparse recent events and general facts. But he knows that of his own. Better than someone who isn't formally educated normally would.]

There was a very bad war, started by a madman in Germany who convinced people in Germany that Jews were dangerous and deserved terrible death. They were put in concentration camps, murdered by thousands.

But in my country, there is a group that made a deal with this Hitler. They work for him, and they help control undesirable people of Slavic countries. They were Ustashe, and the Ustashe believed Croats were superior. They rounded up Roma and Serbs, put Roma into work camps, and Serbs? They do things like tie them back to back, cut open their bellies with "serb-cutters" and throw them in the river alive.

The man who ended Hitler's work in our country, united us, drove out the Ustashe? He was Croat and Bosniak. Not a Serb. And he made us tolerate each other but did not give Serbs exception to recover. Our grandfathers and their children learned to hate these people for what they did, and what they cost us. Only for the work of this leader did we not go to war.

Then he died. And he left no one to keep the peace.

One people started killing the other and the other killed back. My people started fighting, but my family did not. When people came to our village to get rid of us because we were the enemy, they only made enemies. I was very young at the time. Twelve or thirteen. But I fought like I needed to.