Truth and reconciliation' are always combined, but I would split them: I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No.
Blair is regarded by most people in Britain as a smarmy git.
I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.
Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all; there was this sense of guilt, and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years.