mwalkeristraAug 7, 2023HELL HATH NO FURY – the poetry of women Partisans in Yugoslavia 1941 – 1945‘You who burned my house and killed my child, who shelters beneath a foreign wing, a traitor who accepts a salary from the enemy! Did you...
mwalkeristraDec 18, 2022JASENOVAC CONCENTRATION CAMP AND ISTRIAHere is my photograph of the Partisan cenotaph in Tar, Istria, the village my mother was born in. Her family name was Mikatović. They...
mwalkeristraNov 1, 2022BOSNIA, POWER AND MOB MENTALITYSome years ago, I was chatting at work with an Arab woman from Egypt when the topic of democracy came up. ‘Arabs can’t do democracy,’ she...
mwalkeristraOct 16, 2022BOSNIA AND THE LUST FOR POWERMy father was Irish, English and German. My mother had Italian, Venetian, Slovenian and Croatian/Montenegrin grandparents. After World...