Honour
"The international community is anonymous and cannot take responsibility. I can and I do." Wim Kok's long and distinguished political career has ended in resignation, after he and his colleagues accepted responsibility for the 1995 Srebrenica massacre.
The resignation does little to salve the memory of Europe's worst atrocity since World War II, but the Dutch government has acted honourably in extremely difficult circumstances. At a time when the French president is both running for re-election and running away from a host of corruption charges, and when the Italian prime minister has made a priority of self-exonerating legislation, the Dutch exception looks very attractive.
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