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The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.

- Paddy Ashdown
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Paddy Ashdown
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It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.

I love this country, I love these people, though I can't say I love their politicians. People are always nicer than politicians, but here, you can mark that difference up a hundredfold.

I was told there would be riots in the streets, but there were no riots.

I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.

We who came here saw what was happening. This was far more than a war in a faraway place. This was a moral imperative, a terrible vision of the future.

I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.

The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: How was it possible to return to the politics of appeasement of the 1930s?

I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.

I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.

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The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.

The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.

The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.

The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.

The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.

The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.

The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.

The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.

The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.

The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.

The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.

The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.

The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.

The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.

The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.