I actually learned a lot from the readings on the ethnic cleansing in Kosovo; this could possibly have been because I really had no background information on the subject in the first place. I never realized how ill informed I was of the situation until I began reading the sources about the topic. The main thing that shocked me was that all of this was going on when I should have been able to understand the seriousness of the situation, and yet I had no idea. How could I have been alive in the world and still been ignorant of such a horrendous situation?
For me, it was hard to believe that over 11,000 thousand people were murdered, and 1.5 million people driven from their homes, in what was an act that obviously violated a great many people’s human rights. Honestly, while reading, I could not help but compare the situation to Nazi Germany when thousands of people were driven from their homes, many of them sent to extermination camps. It seems odd that we hear more about the Holocaust, than the situation in Kosovo; maybe this is because the Holocaust occurred further back in history and as a result we know more information about the situation.