They're killing each other in cold blood. It makes you think about what being human is. As a student of German, Dickey had previously grappled with the question of what happened in Germany during World War II and why. So he was no stranger to thinking about religious, cultural and political conflicts that seem to defy common sense. You begin to understand why people took particular actions.
People are complex.
It makes you realize how complex a scene civil war is. The former Yugoslavia, outlined in black, includes the states of Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mongenegro, Serbia and Macedonia. The translators have to acquire a certain numbness to the evidence in order to do their jobs, Dickey said. Even so, some examples of brutality are emotionally overwhelming. It's important to establish these facts legally for the sake of history.