Serbs are feeling unloved. Last week the Americans suspended (some) bilateral aid, because of the Serbian government's failure to co-operate fully with the war-crimes tribunal in The Hague. The $26m involved is small-Serbia expects EUD1.1 billion ($1.3 billion) from other sources. And the money can be reinstated if Serbia hands over more suspects accused of war crimes, notably Ratko Mladic, the wartime commander of the Bosnian Serbs. But the suspension is rekindling nationalism. Many Serbs note bitterly that NATO does not do much better than they do: it has just failed, yet again, to arrest General Mladic's former boss, Radovan Karadzic, in Bosnia. They resent the suspension of aid all the more because it comes just after the latest example of ethnic cleansing in the Balkans, the victims being Serbs driven from their homes in the Serbian province of Kosovo by ethnic Albanians under the noses of NATO troops.
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