I knew nothing about that massacre until a visit to the museum about it in Sarajevo. Very modern and well done - with timelines, testimonies, numbers... It really hit me hard, and put into perspective the conversation I had with young Serbians less than a week before, about how NATO bombed them "for no reason". It's really crazy how recent this massacre is, and how I probably would not even know about it were it not for our visit to the region. It was not taught in school, and I'm to young for having heard aout it in the news.
I had a Serb co-worker in Budapest. We were walking home after work one night, and he told me that an American ICBM had destroyed the top 4 floors of his mother's apartment building in Novy Sad the night before. We stood on the gorgeous Chain Bridge, looking down at the Danube together, just trying to take in the fact that there was a war going on to the south... on this same river... where his family were being bombed by my country. I still can't process that moment.