Europe: March 2004 Archives

The violence in Kosovo, last week, was sad, but perhaps inevitable. A couple of weeks ago, I was at a friend's birthday party and I met an old school friend, who was in the TA. He had been on assignment in Bosnia a couple of years ago and trying to disarm the local people. He met with some resistance and the phrase he most commonly heard in response to a request for weapons stuck in his head. It is now ringing in mine "but what about when the violence starts again", not if, but when. I didn't expect it to be true less than two weeks later.