Then They Started Shooting

""Remarkable insight and sensitivity. deepen[s] our understanding of human resilience and how people rebuild their lives from tragic circumstances."--KENNETH ROTH, Executive Director, Human Rights Watch "The stories in this book are eloquently and poignantly recounted, and offer a vital, complex portrait of what the long road to peace looks like."--DINAW MENGESTU, author of The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears and How to Read the Air "Profound. Rarely do we get the opportunity to delve into the thoughts of the young caught up in such a tragedy-and meet them not just once in their lives but again years later."--TIM JUDAH, Europe correspondent for Bloomberg World View, Balkans correspondent for The Economist, and author of The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia Imagine you are nine years old. Your best friend's father is arrested, half your classmates disappear from school, and someone burns down the house across the road. Imagine you are ten years old and have to cross a snow-covered mountain range at night in order to escape the soldiers who are trying to kill you. How would you deal with these memories five, ten, or twenty years later once you are an adult? J