Volume 52, Number 13 · August 11, 2005
The Waiting Game in the Balkans
By Tim Judah
In Bibici, a small Bosnian Serb village near Srebrenica this June, I met Radivoje Bibic, the local bus driver. He told me that from the beginning of the Bosnian war in 1992, Muslims from Srebrenica had occupied the village, from which the Serbs had fled. Only after Srebrenica fell in July 1995, and Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb military commander, proceeded to slaughter up to eight thousand Bosnian Muslim men and boys, were the Serbs able to return to Bibici. When I asked Bibic, 'Was what happened in 1995 revenge for 1992?' he replied, 'Kind of. What they asked for they got. They deserved it.'[1]
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