Today's liberal interventionism is a product of Europe's shame and revulsion at the Bosnia war crimes
Henry Porter
The Observer,
Things sometimes go well. The arrest of Ratko Mladic, though long overdue and cynically co-ordinated with Serbia's overtures to the EU, is truly to be welcomed. Rather than a corpse lying in a compound, we have the living individual who ordered the largest mass murder in Europe since the Second World War and now he will stand in court to be confronted with the unimaginable pain that his actions caused in Sarajevo and the Muslim enclave called Silver City – Srebrenica.
Whether justice can really be achieved after such crimes is another matter, but this course is infinitely preferable to the operation carried out against Osama bin Laden at Abbottabad a few weeks ago. However rotten Mladic seems and however dreadful his crimes, with his extradition to the International Criminal Tribunal in the Hague we assert values that are the very opposite of the darkness that descended in the break-up of Yugoslavia. No retribution can be devised to match what he did, but there will be a modest gain for civilisation from his arrival in the Hague, just as there was when John Demjanjuk was sentenced in Germany two weeks ago – 58 years after he helped kill thousands of Jews in the gas chambers of Sobibor....more....
read more: guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/may/29/srebrenica-massacre-ratko-mladic
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