This song is about the Bosnian War and alludes to the use of systematic mass rape, Serbian aggression, the intervention by NATO, and the international media projection of it. The girl in the story is looking to the West for help, but very little is coming. This aspect may refer to President Clinton's refusal to agree to lift the embargo on weapons that was enacted on all of the former-Yugoslavia in fear of upsetting other Western European powers who were in support of the embargo. Because the Serbs controlled the majority of weapons owned by the former Yugoslavia, the embargo left the Bosniaks (mostly) and Croats relatively defenseless against the Serbian forces.
This song is about the Bosnian War and alludes to the use of systematic mass rape, Serbian aggression, the intervention by NATO, and the international media projection of it. The girl in the story is looking to the West for help, but very little is coming. This aspect may refer to President Clinton's refusal to agree to lift the embargo on weapons that was enacted on all of the former-Yugoslavia in fear of upsetting other Western European powers who were in support of the embargo. Because the Serbs controlled the majority of weapons owned by the former Yugoslavia, the embargo left the Bosniaks (mostly) and Croats relatively defenseless against the Serbian forces.