ABSTRACT

Although Hamdo [a witness] provided few new revelations about [the war crime], Judge McDonald was riveted by his testimony. The reason why she would never forget what he had to say, however, had nothing to do with [the crime] at all. It was due to the fact that Hamdo had been the principal of Bosnia’s largest elementary school-its largest multiethnic school. The school had been integrated. It had graduated class after class of students, who had added their sums, played catch, elbowed their way through the lunch line. Its teachers, like Hamdo, had preached the lesson of brotherhood and unity. And still ethnic strife had erupted in [the town]?