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...watch, South Africa has seen increased unemployment, a widening of the gap between rich and poor, lowered educational standards, declining health services, an uncontrolled AIDS pandemic, a justice system in disarray, an inept police force, the second highest murder rate and the highest rape rate in the world, ethnic cleansing of white citizens, the national electricity provider unable to satisfy power needs, and more than half of municipalities approaching bankruptcy. Cynics now predict that South Africa will become the next Zimbabwe. This is Mandela's real legacy. He is the genial, smiling fig leaf that duped the world into believing...
...easy to spot. Running through the middle of the proudly multicultural city, between apartment buildings and along avenues, were sight lines from the Serb-held side of town. Stepping into them meant death for thousands of innocents at the hands of snipers who had embraced the anti-Muslim ethnic cleansing orchestrated by their leader, Radovan Karadzic...
...Litany of Horrors The indictment, first drawn up in 1995, says that Karadzic, who presided - often grandly - over the self-styled "Serbian Republic" in eastern and northern Bosnia during the war, is responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of Bosnian Muslims, as well as for a vicious ethnic-cleansing campaign that left many more homeless. The prosecution also claims Karadzic set up concentration camps in which non-Serbs were tortured, murdered and raped. The indictment was later amended to include genocide charges linked to the massacre of almost 8,000 men and boys in the U.N. "safe area...
...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 President Slobodan Milosevic, who died in jail in 2006, who had hatched and orchestrated the overall plan for the ethnic cleansing and violent division of Bosnia and Herzegovina...
...lesson of the slow response to Karadzic and the Bosnian Serbs is that inaction can breed greater disorder. When tensions mounted in 1992, few in the West realized how little it would take for Milosevic and Karadzic to exploit the ethnic hatred caused by World War II 50 years earlier, or how rapidly the fighting could spread over the peninsula. If Karadzic's timely arrest stood a chance of blunting the legacy of the victims of Srebrenica and Sarajevo, his belated capture surely doesn...