Sunday, July 27, 2008

Europe Needs A Wake-Up Call. Bosnia Is On The Edge Again


From The Guardian:

As the arrest of Radovan Karadzic is celebrated, we ignore warnings that the politics of his country are increasingly fractured

There is a terrible irony unfolding in Bosnia. Radovan Karadzic is at last on his way to the Hague. But the division of Bosnia that was his dream is now more likely than at any time since he became a fugitive.

I flew into Sarajevo the day after Karadzic was arrested, expecting to find a city in celebration because the architect of their four-year torment from the Serb guns, which killed 10,000 in the Sarajevo siege, was behind bars. But, after a brief flurry of jubilation, the mood is sombre. For people know that, after 10 years of progress which made Bosnia the world's most successful exercise in post-conflict reconstruction, there is a real threat of Bosnia breaking up again.

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My Comment: The scars will take at least 100 years to heal, and there will still be bitterness. Karadzic is just a symbol of the problem that is Bosnia. Because of this dark history .... I can easily predict that in the future Bosnia will be a fractured state.

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