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willingness to kill and, 88
All Quiet on the Western Front (Remarque), 87
al-Sabah, Saud Nasir, 145
Amazons, 159
America. See United States
American Council of Trustees and Alumni, 72
Amin, Jamal Aziz, 138–39
Ammouna, Fahdi Abu, 97
Andrić, Ivo, 64, 112, 122
Angola
casualties of war in, 13
civil war in, 24–25, 101–102
Ann, Lady, 168
Another Day of Life (Kapušciński), 101
Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare), 90, 168
Aphrodite, 100
apocalypse, redemption through, 85
Arab-Israeli war (1973), 164
Arafat, Yasir, 24
Arendt, Hannah, 15, 150, 151
Ares, 100
Argentina, 47, 141
Dirty War and, 43–45, 134
nationalism and, 59–60
rape camps in, 104
torture in, 134–135
willingness to kill and, 88
Aristotle, 161
Arkan, 27, 103
Armenians, genocide of, 122–125
Arnedt, Hannah, 106
art, significance in wartime, 62–63
Asadourian, Hagob H., 122–125
Asadourian, John, 123–125
Athens, 183
Auden, W. H., 90
Augustan age, 26
Austerlitz, 31
Australia, 6
Ayala, Edilberto, 164
Ayios Demetrios Church, 66
Badzić, Murdija, 119–120
Bakovik,Burka, 110, 111
Baldizón, Alvaro José, 36
Balkans, 13, 66, 161
culture destruction and, 77
myth of war and, 21, 26, 31–32
rape camps in, 104
Banja Luka, 107, 163
Bartov, Omer, 86, 92
Basovizza, 132
Basra, Shiite uprising in, 89–90
BBC, 59
Belgrade, 103
Belgrade Circle, 55
Belgrade University, 55
Berdichec, 135
Bible, 27
Bildt, Carl, 79
bin Laden, Osama, 8
Bisbua, casualties of war in, 13
Blood, 134
Blood and Vengeance (Sudetic), 166
B’nai B’rith, 70
Bosanski Novi, 104
Bosnian War
aftermath of, 117–120
attraction of war and, 6–7
cause of, 149–156
Communist hierarchy in, 4
culture and, 62–63, 69–73, 76–80
displacement and, 106–112
end of, 151–153
killing in, 9, 86–87, 88
memory recovery and, 128–130
myth of war and, 20–21, 25, 26
nationalism and, 14–15, 48–58
Serbian warrior and, 20
sex and, 104–106
U.S. intervention in, 16, 20
UN and, 1, 16, 32, 104
war as drug and, 163–164
Brandt, Willy, 57
Brazil, 141
Brckić, Bosko, 169
The Bridge on the Drina (Andrić), 112
Britain, 44, 147
Browning, Christopher, 87–88
Buenos Aries, 59
Burundi, casualties of war in, 13
Bush, George W., 4, 160
Buvac, Ratko, 129
Cairo, 148
California, 5
Caligula, 103
Calvus, 184
Cambodia, 126
Camino Real Hotel, 8
Canada, 49
Canetti, Elias, 112, 145
Caputo, Philip, 26
Carlos, Commandante, 131
Carlotta, 101–102
Casa Rosada, 59
Cassandra, 25
Catholic Church, 46
Catullus, 170, 183, 184
cause
of Bosnian War, 149–156
language of, 148
myth of war and, 146–147
of Persian Gulf War, 142–146, 148–149
war and, 142–156
Ceauşescu, Nicolae, 2
Central America, 13, 24, 35, 161
Chechens, 9
Chechnya, 13, 16, 170
“Chetniks,” 14, 153
children, war and, 93–98
Chile, 44, 141
Christianity, 147–148
Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Márquez), 16
Cicero, 183
Civilization and Its Discontents (Freud), 158
Clark, Wesley K., 16
Clerides, Glafkos, 66
Clinton, Bill, 20, 34
Cold War, 15, 131
Coleman, Kathleen, 183
Colombia, 2, 13
communism, 27
Communist Partisans, 131–132
Congo, 105, 163
Congress, 5
Congressional Human Rights Caucus, 145
Conrad, Joseph, 90
Contras, 24, 36
Conversation with Goya: Signs, Bridges (Andrić), 122
Coriolanus (Shakespeare), 83, 168
Ćosić, Dobrica, 48
Costa Rica, 6
Crimean War, 22
Croatia, 14
Catholic Church in, 46
Education Ministry in, 33
gangsters and, 27–28
myth of war and, 20, 21, 26, 32–34
nationalism and, 70–71
victimhood and, 64
See also Bosnian War
Cromwell, Oliver, 19
Crvena Zemlja, 127
Cuba, 35, 102
culture
Bosnian War and, 62–63
destruction of, 62–82
memory and, 123
nationalism and, 62
state and, 62
war and, 3, 62–82
The Culture of Narcissism (Lasch), 37
Cura, Fatima, 109
Cyclops, 12
Cyprus, Turkish invasion of, 64–67
Czechoslovakia, 57
Damascus, 149
Dante, 1
Davor, 107
Dayton peace agreement (1995), 151–152
death
abuse of, 89, 137
anonymous, 135
media and, 146
U.S. and, 160
war and, 89, 144–146, 157–158, 165–167
democracy, terrorism and, 9, 148
Denktash, Rauf, 67
desaparecido, 135