The Key to My Neighbor's House: Seeking Justice in Bosnia and Rwanda

The Key to My Neighbor's House: Seeking Justice in Bosnia and Rwanda by Neuffer, Elizabeth. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780312261269.

Interviewing war criminals and their victims,Neuffer explains,through the voices of people she follows over the course of a decade,how genocide erodes a nations social and political environment.Her characters stories and their competing notions of justice-from searching for the bodies of loved ones,to demanding war crime trials,to seeking bloody revenge-convinces readers that crimes against humanity cannot be resolved by simple talk of forgiveness,or through the more common recourse to forgetfulness.