Fr. Frank Majka, SJ – The Bridge

Firm Foundations

This past week, newspapers reported that Radovan Karadzic had been turned over to the war crimes tribunal in the Netherlands, where he will be tried for, among other things, masterminding the slaughter of 8,000 men and boys in Srberenica in l995, and helping to spearhead a three-year siege of Sarajevo, which resulted in 10,000 deaths.

Fifteen thousand people, though, demonstrated in Belgrade in support of him for helping to create the Bosnia Serb mini-state. In their eyes, Karadzic is no mass murderer, but a founding father.

But nations will never endure if they don’t have a willingness to admit and make reparation for the dark deeds that can come along with making a nation and living as one. And this is just as true for America as for any other society.