November 13th, 2008
Kemal Bakarsic:
The Libraries of Sarajevo …
There has never been a place on TNC to post comments about “The Libraries of Sarajevo and the Book that Saved Our Lives” by Kemal Bakarsic.
Now, thoughts may be posted here below.
ed says:
The ill conceived but perhaps necessary Dayton Accord seems to be falling apart.
November 21st, 2008 at 1:10 pm
ed says:
Thoughts re the arrest of the Bosnian Serb political leader, Radovan Karadzic, earlier this year.
November 21st, 2008 at 1:13 pm
ed says:
Richard Holbrooke, who led the operation that drafted and got people to sign the Dayton Accord in 1995, published an Op Ed piece last fall telling the world that the Bosnian state that Dayton shaped is unravelling.
Today the NY Times editorial page echoes the distress call, and calls upon the US and EU to take a role in drafting a new constitution, to replace the tripartite (Bosniak-Croat-Serb) decentralized structure of Dayton.
Bosnia was front and center for three years in my life. No one I knew in 1995 was happy with the Dayton agreement. Nobody thought it was anything but a ceasefire. Most thought it betrayed the principles that, among many others, the people of Sarajevo defended during the years of the siege.
I heard Holbrooke speak a few years ago, and chatted with him after a bit. He seemed a bit befuddled.
Now, of course, he has been sent by Prez Obama to Pakghanistan. A place where diplomats are only slightly less useless than conventional armies. He’s nearly 70. Hard to see what he can hope to accomplish.
I’d have rather seen him sent to Sarajevo, I guess.
February 23rd, 2009 at 10:16 pm
ed says:
Fast forward to October.
Radovan Karadzic will go on trial next week.
October 12th, 2009 at 9:44 pm