to select three prisoners out of the group of us. All of the prisoners, including myself and my father, were outside whole day, forced to watch them party, eat and drink while we were starved. So three prisoners were selected and brought out before the officer, who then ordered the soldiers to beat the down. All the while we were watching, thee innocent men, two of them in their mid twenties were being savagely beaten by a group of Serbian soldiers. After the men could no longer get up officer ordered the soldiers to throw the onto the burning tires. That is the first time I saw two of the soldiers hesitate. They stepped back for a second, until the officer gave out the order again. By this time couple of guys that were being beaten were regaining their conscience, but they could not resist the soldiers, weak as they were. Third guy, never regaining his conscience, God knows if he was even alive, was thrown in first and dyed without even knowing what happened to him. I wish the other two had the same luck. Without any regard to their agonizing screams soldiers threw them in the fire and pushed them back every time they tried to get out. Officer just stood there observing. Once their whole bodies were caught on fire soldiers let them get out and roll on the ground. They watched them suffer and burn not even trying to end their suffering. The ones who seemed to want to do it were either ordered not to by the officers there or by other soldiers.This is just one of many horrifying stories describing to what extent will a person obey the orders of an authority. Examples of it may be found all around us and although most of them will not be as extreme as the ones I encountered in Bosnia, it is horrifying to know that a person will go that far in obeying someone else. Milgrams experiment was really represented in real life in Bosnia. The factors that according to Milgram determine obedience were also represented in Bosnia. A...
