In this episode of the series “ViewPoint: Weighing of Suffering”, young people from across the region open up a topic often considered taboo: Does acknowledging the victims of others automatically diminish the significance of one’s own people’s suffering?

Caught between the fear of “betrayal” and the need for human compassion, participants from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, and Serbia share their reflections on how they were taught to view the victims of the “other side.” We listen to their perspectives on deeply ingrained narratives that convince us that, even in empathy, there must be a winner and a loser.