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some questions about the movie

posted 17 years ago by harafias
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its hard to tell who the Muslims and who the Christian soldiers are, i know that guy in the car says "see those soldiers wih green on their heads, they are Mujahadeen warriors"

the soldiers that slaughter those civilians on the bus, and hammer their heads, are the soldiers Muslim or christian serbs?

i find the yugo war confusing, so many nationalities, eg;

Serbs, Croats, Bosnians, muslim bosnians, etc

so which ones are the muslims and which are the christians usually?

why does the girls family hate her when she was obviously raped? its not like she chose to have the baby

[–] Eh-K-Forty-Seven 16 years ago

Well in Bosnia their is three groups. Orthodox Christian Serbs, Roman Catholic Croats and the Bosniak Muslims. The Muslims in Bosnia are either Serbs or Croats who converted to Islam during the Ottoman occupation of the balkans to escape having to pay taxes and having their children taken away from them. Bosnian can't really be considered anything since Bosnia never was a unitary nation-state or ethnic state like Serbs and Croats had.
The Serbian soldiers are the ones with the red-blue-white flag on their shoulder patches.
The ones killing people with hammers and stuff are Croats, their symbol is the checkerboard which you can see on their HVO patches.
Hope that helped.

[–] fashion103 16 years ago

Nice answer. Clear, concise and factual.

Time for some hooch....hooch for the pooch!

[–] s3ko 16 years ago

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnia_and_Herzegovina