Zlata wrote her diary over a two year period from September 1991 to October 1993.
Zlata wrote her diary over a two year period from September 1991 to October 1993.
Zlata and her parents are of mixed ethnic heritage.
"Tuesday, March 24, 1992. The Blue Helmets [UN] have arrived in Sarajevo. We're safer now. Daddy drove me to the building on a UN Peace Force command. He told me that now that the blue flag is flying in Sarajevo we can hope for something better."
She also wrote:
"Tuesday, May 4, 1993. I've been thinking about politics again. No matter how stupid, ugly and unreasonable I think this division of people into Serbs, Croats and Muslims is, these stupid people are making it happen. We're all waiting for something, hoping for something, but there's nothing. Even the Vance-Owen peace plan looks as though its going to fall through. Now these maps are being drawn up, separating people, and nobody asks them a thing. Those "kids" [politicians] really are playing around with us. Ordinary people don't want this division, because it won't make anybody happy--not the Serbs, not the Croats, not the Muslims. But who asks ordinary people? Politics asks only its own people.
Your Zlata."
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