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Almir Buco Research Paper You can hear the shells very clearly outside. Every second of every day is spent in a basement/cellar in their house. Zlata and her family are terrified of the fear that the war has put them through. Everyday is filled with boredom and fear. Everyday it keeps getting worse and worse. What will Zlata and her family do to survive? This a story by Zlata Filipovic, actually it’s more of a diary than a story, and in this story/diary she describes the tragic events that happened throughout her childhood. This war was a terrible crime, it was unfair to the people of Bosnia, and America (and other countries) could have helped. The war that happened in Bosnia was a terrible crime. The Serbs took over land and killed innocent civilians. All the Bosnians wanted was the right to have freedom, and the Serbs took that away from them. Many were affected by this cruel war, which has changed people’s perspectives on things. “Television and newspapers show us the pictures: the destruction, the injured survivors, the dead.We rarely get glimpses of survivors st...

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