A familar argument heard against the the 1996 Dayton Peace Accords in Sarajevo is that in setting up a two Entity structure for post-conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina they ‘legitimized genocide’, namely by accepting Republika Srpska as one of the two Entities (the other being called, somewhat confusingly, the ‘Federation of Bosnia […]
Are international tribunals for war crimes suspects a Good Idea? And if so, are they being Done Well? If not, does that mean that the Idea is in fact not so Good? Two excellent pieces on these themes: one by John Lloyd, the other by Bill Montgomery. It goes without […]
I suspect that few readers of this Blog have ever heard of Jovan Divjak. Here he is. The point being that while we think about Karadzic and Mladic and all the horrors they helped create, let’s remember one true Bosnian, born as a Serb in Belgrade, who fought against them […]
Too much Karadzic can be wearing, but the pieces at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty on the man and his arrest are excellent, especially this one: In the end, Karadzic miscalculated. His dream of uniting all Serbs in a single state failed, and now they are scattered across five independent countries. His […]
News that the Arabic word for God has been found miraculously enscribed on a piece of meat in Nigeria alas does not impress me. When I was in Serbia the erudite paper Twilight Zone carried a picture of the image of Milosevic which had been found on a piece of […]
The steady insight of Lord Owen, with the deafening noise emitted by Simon Jenkins. Good piece in the Independent too. But they spoil it by adding a list of War criminals still at large. These people are not war criminals. They are war crimes suspects or indictees, unless and until they […]
A comment by me adding some operational background on international attempts to arrest Karadzic is up at the Independent’s Open House.
See the words of wisdom of Radovan Karadzic aka Dr Dabic – at his site! (The Ever Increasing Need for Alternative Viewpoints in the Modern World) Try this one: You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in […]
Chandler Rosenberger at National Review Online takes a big picture look at US Balkan policy over the past decade and more. I might disagree with him at various points. He offers a rather US-centric view. But he does bring out well that while thematic, sustained and firm approaches to dealing with […]
Finally. Radovan Karadzic the former Green activist has been arrested, in Belgrade. I never met him. By the time I reached Sarajevo in mid-1996 he was already lying low, although not that low. NATO troops were in effect instructed not to look for him or other war crimes suspects, but to arrest them […]
