After a few days to rest an aching knee, a lovely 25 minute run through the wind-battered woods this morning. There is a brutal logic to weakened trees being thinned out by strong wind, but it's difficult to be untouched by the sight of all the damage.
Meanwhile on the world stage the arrest of Ratko Mladić is an uncomfortable but necessary reminder of the horrors of the Bosnian war and the Srebrenica massacre in particular, of how swiftly ordinary people can turn into murderers, and of how the "international community" is still capable of standing aside to allow genocide to happen. An excellent and moving article by Arnel Hecimovic in the Guardian also asks how it could take 16 years for Mladić to be found and arrested in a small country such as Serbia. The NY Times, amongst others, is asking whether the timing had anything to do with Serbia's bid for membership of the EU or whether it is a simple coincidence that, after 16 years his arrest happened only days before a UN report was due to criticise Serbia's lack of efforts in pursuing war criminals.
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