Serbia has a real chance to finally break with its tormented past and be accepted as a modern nation state
The arrest of General Ratko Mladić, will be greeted with jubilation by the surviving victims of the Balkan wars of the 1990s in which he played so notorious and so grisly a part. His capture is a boost for Serbia's democratically elected government, which will now hope to advance its long-stymied quest for EU membership. It is also a fillip for international justice, in the battered form of the UN's international criminal tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague.
But most of all, the arrest of Mladić marks a symbolic end point to the long, shameful trail of failed politics, impotent diplomacy, and bloody ethnic warfare that engulfed the constituent parts of former Yugoslavia in the aftermath of the cold war. This horrific era revisited upon a shocked and disbelieving Europe the half-forgotten ghosts and spectres of its violent 20th-century history. And in ending that conflict, it fell, once again, and humiliatingly for the EU, to the United States to step into the ring and do what Europe could not do for itself.....more...
read more: guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/may/26/ratko-mladic-arrest
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