War Crimes

Heard this chilling essay by the BBC’s Nick Thorpe as I was driving from Charlottesville to Richmond in the pre-dawn darkness yesterday to catch an early flight home to  Boston. Just found it on-line and thought it worth posting. 

Balkan Bakers

A propos the future of the Balkans, here’s an intriguing piece from the BBC’s Nick Thorpe on bakers from Kosovo who are scattered throughout the former Yugoslavia.

I met Nick in Pristina in 1999 when we were both covering the aftermath of the war there. He’s one of the few reporters who has returned to the region again and again to see how things are developing there.