Revenge in the making.(will a truth commission in Bosnia stop brewing ethnic hatred)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)

Children in Bosnia are growing up learning that their neighbours are enemies. Civic groups say that a truth commission is the only way to defuse brewing ethnic hatred

When truth commissions were set up in Latin American countries such as Argentina, Chile` and El Salvador, they were justified because the systems of abuse there had been designed to hide the facts. Torture and related abuses were committed largely in secret; crimes like "disappearances" were intended to erase any trace of the victim or the crime. Hence the compelling need to uncover and acknowledge the truth.

In Bosnia, such a commission is not needed because of a hidden truth, but because of multiple …