http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/23/angelina-jolie-bosnia-serbian-rape-camps

Today — a bloggish debate as to how Mladic has managed to avoid arrest.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/25/world/europe/25iht-serbia.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/22/world/europe/22iht-mladic.html

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I don’t think so, they (the State Department) just celebrate the SBiH/Silajdzic’s departure.

Now they can re-impose the April Package and that is all they will press for.

They failed to make it four years ago, so the whole country has been paralyzed since then as a discrete punishment for that failure (this has even been permanently repeated by some foreign diplomats, as well as by SDA’s leader, Sulejman Tihic).

Now the main culprits (SBiH and HDZ 1990) have been openly punished, eliminated from the scene and marked as the main culprits for that paralysis (as the text openly suggests), so the April Package can be put back on the table.

As one might know, the April Package contains some very dangerous paragraphs, which can cause the country’s final dissolution, and that is why it was rejected by some four years ago (not because of Silajdzic’s vanity, as permanently suggested by the Western media during these four years).

I think this is one of the worst possible scenarios, yet it is the most probable one.

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Nothing of interest re policy in the Time report:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/13/world/europe/13diplo.html?hp

A NY Times editorial today about all the obvious things that still need doing in Bosnia and Serbia.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/11/opinion/11mon2.html

Meanwhile the Karadzic trial staggers on through long periods of delay, and Mladic remains at large.

Radovan Karadzic will go on trial next week.

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.