If you know ethnic strife, then you know this film

Rating: 9/10 (16 December 2002)

I am a Turkish-American. I think many Americans often wonder how these things occur. Alas, in my father's country, there have been such conflicts with Kurds, Greek and Armenians to name just a few! I must say the most disturbing thing about them- well, one of the most disturbing things, is that by the time so much blood has been spilled, the other side honestly begins to feel that there is something sinsiter or savage about the other side, and that each person from that race is one who should be shot dead in cold blood. This film illustrates how this atmosphere creates an authentic hatred and distrust, which can only be escalate- not alleviate- when outsiders step in, though admitedly, outsiders are overwhlemed with a moral obligation to try and stop the madness and it would be inhuman to just let people kill each other- though they will probably do that under any circumstance.If this sounds hypocritical, than you should visit a country torn up by such battles as I did when I went to the northern (Turkish) portion of Cyprus in 1991. I think this film captures the insanity as well any documentary could, and really it is perhaps the best film out of 'the Balkan region' since "When My Father Was Away On Business."