Stages of Genocide in Safe Area Gorazde

In the book Safe Area Gorazde, the first class stage of genocide, classification, is very clearly demonstrated. The classification stage of genocide is when a certain group is distinguished by their religion, ethnicity, race, nationality, etc. For example, the narrator “didn’t feel comfortable going alone into a Serb coffee bar” (Sacco, 2001, p. 40). Also when the Bosniak narrator was talking to his Serbian friend, his friend said, “I can’t go with you. People will point at me”. (Sacco, 2001, p. 39).