I recently took part in a conference in Belgrade entitled “Dealing with the Past in ex-Yugoslavia.” Although the rest of postcommunist Europe confronted such questions a decade ago, the Balkan wars of the 1990’s left both perpetrators and victims stuck in a time warp of justice delayed.
不久前，我出席了贝尔格莱德举行的会议，题目是“面对前南斯拉夫的过去。”尽管欧洲其它后共产主义国家早在10年前就不得不面对这个问题，但20世纪90年代的巴尔干战争却让犯罪者和牺牲者都陷在正义迟迟得不到伸张的时空怪圈之中。