VERMEER IN BOSNIA: Cultural Comedies and Political Tragedies.
Vermeer in Bosnia: Selected Writings. There are writers who specialize in the strange and others whose genius is to find the strangeness in the familiar, the unexpected meanings in stories we thought we knew. Of that second category, Lawrence Weschler is the master.History of Bosnian Muslims in Bosnia-Herzegovina Muslims share 40 percent of the population in Bosnia, making it the largest religion when it comes to the number of people occupying the land. This group of people are often called Bosniaks, an informal term for Bosnian Muslims.In the beginning of his essay “Vermeer in Bosnia,” Lawrence Weschler tells the stories about how he visited the Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal and the horrific madness he was told: a Muslim, a soccer player, was “forced to watch as they repeatedly raped his wife and two daughters and then slit their throats”(778); another Muslim, a prisoner, was forced “.
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Lawrence Weschler speaks of indescribably horrific violence in his essay “Vermeer in Bosnia”. The essay starts with particularly cruel stories of atrocities told by the head judge Antonio Cassese during the preliminary hearings of the Yugoslavian War Crimes Tribunal. Those stories are beyond violence. They are too inhuman to believe.
