A Comparison of Two Representations of the Bosnian Conflict

Both the docudrama, Warriors, and the News report shown on the 23rd April 1993 are structured to tell the story of the Bosnian conflict. They have similar intentions to inform the audience of the crisis and show the results of the ethnic cleansing together with the divide between the Muslims, Serbs and Croats.
Warriors directed by Peter Kominski is a fictionalised representation of the aftermath of the ethnic cleansing experienced due to the conflict in Bosnia. Peter Kosminsky's Warriors depicts the agonising frustration of young soldiers forced to stand by and witness ethnic cleansing and slaughter as members of the UN peacekeeping force in Bosnia. Kominsky interviewed over ninety British soldiers involved in one particular deployment in Bosnia. He also viewed BBC, ITN and amateur video footage in Ahinici in 1993. He wanted the docudrama to look somewhere between newsreel and documentary and also as real as possible.
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