While trying to illustrate the inter-ethnic hatred that reigned in his native Bosnia in 1993, a deserter who had just arrived in Belgrade told me: 'You know, these Serbs hate Bosnian Muslims just as we hate Albanians.'
The 'we' this deserter used was supposed to mean 'us - normal people', who don't hate each other (except for the Albanians). Though disparaging Albanians was quite common and self-implied in former Yugoslavia, I could do nothing but vigorously confront him, saying I did…