This time we knew
Subtitle: western responses to genocide in Bosnia
By: edited by Thomas Cushman and Stjepan G. Mestrovic.
Contributors: Cushman, Thomas, 1959-; Mestrovic, Stjepan Gabriel.
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 412
Subjects: World politics -- 1989-; Yugoslav War, 1991-; Genocide -- Bosnia and Hercegovina
Description: "We didn't know." For half a century, Western politicians and intellectuals have in this fashion explained away their inaction in the face of genocide in World War II. In stark contrast, Western observers today face a daily barrage of information and images from CNN, the Internet, and newspapers about the parties and individuals responsible for the Balkan War and crimes against humanity.

The stories, often accompanied by video or pictures of rape, torture, mass graves, and ethnic cleansing, available almost instantaneously, do not allow even the most disinterested viewer to ignore the grim reality of genocide.

And yet, while knowledge abounds, so do rationalizations for non-intervention in Balkan affairs - the threshold of "real" genocide had yet to be reached in Bosnia; all sides were equally guilty; Islamic fundamentalism in Bosnia is a threat to the West; it will only end when they all tire of killing each other - to name but a few.

This Time We Knew punctures once and for all common excuses for Western inaction in the face of incontrovertible evidence of the most egregious crimes against humanity to occur in Europe since World War II.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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