The tide turns?
IT TOOK the blood of tens of thousands of Bosnians to create the Serb Republic. Since the signing of the Dayton peace accord in December 1995, its chauvinist leaders have done all they can to keep the entity ethnically pure and aloof from Bosnia and Hercegovina, the state to which it nominally belongs. Now, all of a sudden, the Serb Republic has a prime minister who preaches ethnic tolerance, champions Dayton and will acquiesce in the arrest of people wanted for hideous crimes during the four-year Bosnian war. Radovan Karadzic, the Serbs' nationalist-in-chief and himself a wanted man, is in retreat.
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