Stages of Genocide in Safe Area Gorazde

The stage of genocide that relates to the book, Safe Area Gorazde is classification. Classification means to classify someone or a group of people by their race, nationality or religion. On page 19, a map shows how Bosnia is divided by different ethnic groups including Croats, Serbs and Muslims. It shows that Bosnia isn't just one country, it's divided by ethnicity. On page 40 it explains how two different coffee bars are specifically for different ethnicities; "In some coffee bars, all the people were Muslim and 15 meters away another coffee bar was full of Serbs"(Sacco, 2001, p. 40). In both of these examples, they are showing how people only classify each other by their ethnicity and not just as people.