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Merced Kucanin finished his testimony today at the Hague Tribunal. As you remember from yesterday Kucanin was a Sarajevo police officer who testified about shelling and sniping in Sarajevo. He testified today about a certain Milo Vaselovic who had been shot by a sniper in Sarajevo. Vaselovic was a Serb, and Kucanin testified that he had been shot by Vojislav Seselj. He didn’t do any ballistic analysis on the corpse or anything like that but he saw Seselj on Television that night and so he concluded that Seselj must have been the gunman…impeccable logic indeed. Kucanin also retracted his previous...

Wim Kok did the honourable thing. He was prime minister when more than 7,000 Bosnian Muslims under the protection of Dutch UN peacekeepers were slaughtered by Serb troops. The Dutch battalion (Dutchbat), unwilling to risk their own lives, handed the victims over to their butchers. So last week, after the publication of an exhaustive Dutch report, Wim Kok took responsibility - not for the killings, of course, but for having let them happen under his watch. Such a principled move is rare enough. The French, whose dealings with the Serbs were often dubious, to say the least, never did anything...