Question

Who wrote the following, and what was this person referencing?

"And the fighters themselves were capable of similar leaps of faith and fancy. In a sandbagged revetment on a hill above Sarajevo, not too far from the no-man's-land of the city's Jewish cemetery, a bearded Serb fighter said to me, "Before this summer ends we will have driven the Turkish army out of the city, just as they drove us from the field of Kossovo in 1389. That was the beginning of Turkish domination of our lands. This will be the end of it, after these cruel centuries."

a. David Reiff in 1995 wrote "Slaughter in Yugoslavia". He was referencing the attacks of the bosnian serbs on the bosnian muslims and how the U.N. was just watching and not doing anything while portraying dispair.
b. Marthin LuthernBerg
c. Albert Einstein
d. John F.

Answer 1

David Reiff wrote about the circumscribed mentality of a Serb fighter who referenced historical events to assert the desired end of perceived Turkish (Bosnian Muslim) control, in the context of the brutal Bosnian War of the 1990s involved in ethnic cleansing.

Step-by-step explanation:

The quote is by David Reiff, who wrote about the conflict in the former Yugoslavia during the 1990s. He was most likely referencing the Serb fighter's sense of historical continuity, bridging the past and the present by asserting that they would overcome the 'Turkish army'—a term used here to refer to Bosnian Muslims, evoking the Ottoman Empire's control of the region centuries earlier. This optimism and determination reflected by the fighter was set against the backdrop of the ethnic cleansing and violence that characterized the Bosnian War, where Bosnian Serbs under Slobodan Miloševik carried out horrific actions against Muslims and other minorities, including the tragic event in Srebrenica and the shelling of Sarajevo.