Serbia, the ICTY and reconciliation: The terrifying new era of “quiet pride”

Many of my international friends were astonished at the tsunami of hate speech and genocide justification (we’re past the denial stage) triggered in Serbia by the ICTY verdict against Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladić. To me this was a sign of how much they’ve lost touch with the realities of the political and societal discourse shaped by the current Serbian government and its clients in the Republika Srpska regime of Milorad Dodik. The virulent