A 5-page paper double spaced on.Slavenka Drakulic writes, “More than a decade after the beginning of the war in theBalkans, it is essential that we understand that it is we, ordinary people and not somemadmen, who made it possible. We were the ones who one day stopped greeting ourneighbors of a different nationality, an act that the next day made possible the opening ofconcentration camps. We did it to one another. Maybe this is a good reason forconsidering whether it is too easy to put a hundred men on trial in the Hague” (194).What argument is Drakulic making in these lines? Do you think she is correct? Makeyour own argument in support of her claims, or against them.
