Justice in Bosnia

EVER since fighting ended in Bosnia, a little less than two years ago, most of those who committed Europe's worst atrocities in 50 years have swaggered on, at liberty, in one part or other of former Yugoslavia. Now some of them probably sleep less soundly at night. Last week British troops snatched two Bosnian Serbs, who between them had run a network of prison camps in which Muslims and Croats were tortured and murdered. One of them, Milan Kovacevic, was whisked off to the international war-crimes tribunal at The Hague; the other, Simo Drljaca, shot one of the snatch squad and was killed. This week Dusan Tadic, a Bosnian Serb who had treated Muslims in the camps brutishly, became the second person to receive a prison sentence from the Hague tribunal. At last NATO seems to have resolved that, if Bosnia's peace is to endure, war criminals can no longer go unpunished.