The other side of the 1990s
What a misremembered decade says about the fallibility of memory.
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People visiting the cemetery in Potocari, where the victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre are buried.
PHOTO: REUTERS
Janan Ganesh
I heard the name of Ratko Mladic a few thousand times growing up. The television news would bring him into the living room like an uninvited guest each evening. But a disintegrating Yugoslavia was far from south London, and hard for even adults to fathom. Besides, there were other names to conjure with. Liam Gallagher. Dennis Bergkamp. Pamela Anderson.
A Bosnian Serb in epaulettes didn’t hold the attention.
