"It’s been more than 20 years since the end of the war in the former Yugoslavia," writes journalist Sonia Bakaric, today based in Paris.
"The painful memories from covering that savage time have never left me, receding to the back of my mind with the passage of time. But they’ve come back to the surface with a vengeance ahead of the verdict of Ratko Mladic, the 'Butcher of the Balkans,' at the International Tribunal at The Hague."