
How We Left Our Own Suffering Nameless
Nearly a decade ago, and I may be mistaken here, so I ask my readers for understanding, members of the Jadovno non-governmental organization came forward with a proposal to introduce a specific term, a phrase for the genocide committed against Serbs in the Independent State of Croatia, hereinafter referred to as the NDH. SRB Their proposal was “Pokolj,” in Serbian meaning “Slaughter.” It sounded eerie, unsettling, and dark, but given what it was meant to describe, it could hardly sound otherwise. Nevertheless, in the hope that the Serbian public would begin to discuss this issue, I, then a young man who had just completed his undergraduate studies, wrote a modest












