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Yesterday's Funeral Is Not Today's Rehabilitation

TL;DR

Reuters filed Bosnia expelling two Serbian diplomats after Mladić's funeral. A funeral is not a rehabilitation. Print two expulsions, not a rewritten verdict.

MSM Perspective

Position 25 already named two diplomats. This brief holds the funeral as Monday's, not a Tuesday rehabilitation.

X Perspective

Feeds treat a Belgrade funeral as already a rewritten history.

Bosnia expelled two Serbian diplomats after Ratko Mladić's funeral. [1] This paper already printed two persona non grata. Reuters filed the expulsions. [1] Yesterday's funeral is not today's rehabilitation. Print two. Do not print a rewritten verdict.

Leave Wednesday's Belgrade reply to Wednesday. A military-honors funeral is Monday's Belgrade, not a Tuesday history rewrite. Print the hold. A military-honors recap is still not a rewritten ICTY file.

Print not a rehabilitation. Tuesday is not a rewritten Mladić verdict. Two diplomats remain Tuesday's named Sarajevo act. A funeral recap is still not a rewritten ICTY file. Print two as already named. The Tuesday line stands as printed. Print Monday's funeral as still not today's rewrite. Print two as still the named expulsion.

Funerals end mourning periods; they don't rewrite verdicts. The ICTY file closed years ago. Tuesday buries the man, not the record.

Sarajevo's expulsions answer Belgrade's funeral honors tit for tat. Balkan diplomacy runs on reciprocity. Tuesday's two match Monday's mourning.

Matched expulsions close the reciprocity loop; Tuesday's two close it. Loops don't reopen verdicts. The ICTY file stays shut.

Sarajevo's expulsions answer Belgrade's funeral honors. The ICTY file closed years ago. Tuesday buries the man, not the record.

Sarajevo answered a funeral with two expulsions, not a history rewrite. Military honors in Belgrade were Monday's mourning. Reciprocity does not reopen an ICTY conviction. A Serbian reply is not in Tuesday copy at all.
Reciprocity does not reopen an ICTY conviction. The honors mourn the man, not the record. Military honors in Belgrade were Monday's mourning.

Reciprocity does not reopen an ICTY conviction. Military honors in Belgrade were Monday's mourning. Tuesday reprints Monday's mourning, not a Hague reversal.

-- HENDRIK VAN DER BERG, Berlin

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