Joshua Oppenheimer: “If you want to understand genocide, you have to understand the perpetrators.”
Oscar-nominated director talks about war crimes and guilt.
|17.08.2017
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I started to see that he was a man who was showing me pain, so of course I just watched and bore witness.
"We have this absurd situation where people are boasting all over the country about what would be a war crime according to the international definition, but that are not being called war crimes by the government."
Aleksandar Brezar
Aleksandar Brezar was born in 1984 in Sarajevo. Presenter and reporter for the Bosnian public broadcaster BHRT, he has also worked as a journalist at Radio 202, and on several documentaries for PBS, Holocaust Memorial Museum United States of America and Al Jazeera English. He also works as a literary translator.
This story was originally written in English.