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...Twelve and a half years ago, when the corpses in these mass graves were still fresh, the arrest of Radovan Karadzic might have made a difference. True, the world knew even then that the so-called president of the breakaway Serb region of Bosnia and Herzegovina was more the foreman than the architect of the worst massacres in Europe since World War II: the siege of Sarajevo, which killed at least 10,000 people, and the slaughter at Srebrenica, which killed more than 7,000 men, some of whose bodies had filled the site at Glogova. It was former Yugoslavian...
...Karadzic, who was arrested Monday in Serbia, had been indicted by an international court in the Hague for ordering the attacks on Sarajevo and Srebrenica. For the surviving victims and their families, he had become the personification of the war's brutality. His timely capture and trial held the prospect of justice for Bosnians who had suffered. Many argued his arrest was necessary if the country was to reunite in peace. And for the world that had watched and done little as genocide unfolded in Bosnia, Karadzic's arrest held out hope of a post-cold war order that might...
...fled first to the Bosnian hinterlands and then to neighboring Serbia, where nationalist authorities gave him safe harbor. Those who lived through the war will be happy to see Karadzic in shackles. But they will consider it injustice if the authorities in Serbia, after refusing to arrest him for more than a decade, leverage his belated capture for their goal of closer integration with Europe (E.U. talks on the matter are set to begin Tuesday). And if there was a moment when his arrest would have helped reunite Bosnia, it has long passed. The country has limped along, still effectively...
...West's dreams of expiation, Karadzic's arrest even years ago would never have made up for the fact that Europe and the U.S., seemingly invincible with victory in the cold war, had been unwilling for three and a half years to stop a small-time thug from unleashing genocide in Europe. In fact, the failure to stop Karadzic or to bring him to justice, along with the failure to stop the genocide in Rwanda in 1994, did produce soul-searching in the West. When Bill Clinton ordered the attack on Milosevic's forces in Kosovo, then Secretary of State...
...discharging my obligations. Your August 9, 1982 article has caused me embarrassment and extreme distress in body and mind where I live, and indeed, all over the world. Stefania von Kories zu Goetzen Paris, France In TIME's article about the return of the stolen Salinas jewels and her arrest on charges of possession of the jewels, which were later dropped, it did not mean to suggest that the Baroness von Kories zu Goetzen was involved in the theft of the jewels or convicted of any crimes in connection with the theft or otherwise. TIME regrets the inaccuracies...