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🗓️ 29 September 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Elvedin Pasic lived through the Bosnian genocide in the early 1990s. So why is one of Bosnia’s leaders saying it never happened? And what happens if that leader, Milorad Dodik, wins a national election this weekend? This episode was reported and produced by Haleema Shah, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey and Efim Shapiro, and hosted by Noel King. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This coming Sunday, a friend of Vladimir Putin's will be on the ballot in Bosnia's national
0:07.0	elections.
0:08.0	Putin doesn't have many chums, but with Milo-Rod Do-Dic, one of Bosnia's three presidents,
0:13.2	he has things in common.
0:14.6	They both like soccer, they're both into authoritarianism, and they both have a passion for writing.
0:19.8	Sorry, rewriting history.
0:25.1	The Bosnia and Serb leader has gained popularity by saying a thing that definitely happened,
0:31.1	never happened.
0:32.1	A genocide that ripped his country apart 30 years ago during a civil war.
0:36.6	The fighting in Bosnia was severe in a number of fronts today.
0:39.2	The United Nations and NATO are watching for now.
0:42.5	A war the US helped end.
0:44.4	The warring factions in Bosnia reached a peace agreement.
0:48.4	As a result of our efforts in Dayton, Ohio.
0:50.8	A war that Do-Dic may be on the brink of starting again.
0:54.1	It's coming up on today's point.
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