Description
In this film from 2004 we see how Bosnia had become a guinea pig in a massive experiment in international intervention, but the experiment wasn’t yet a success. Crime and corruption in the new Bosnia was rampant. Bosnia’s civil war had been over for eight years, but soldiers still tramped the hills looking for weapons, but the calamity is no longer war but economic misery. The absence of war had not brought peace but purgatory. A society in the shadows, where law is largely a rumour. The Dayton peace accords divided the country into sullen halves. In the Serb half, criminals and corruption dominated the dark streets. Smuggling, money laundering, drug trafficking – it was all there and all tolerated by a government heavily involved. Ending war had not yet led to normality in a shattered country. It was a sobering realisation for peacekeepers almost a decade after they marched in to Bosnia.