Tatjana Vaxberg on dictators in the Arab World and Eastern Europe

In their final phases the Arab revolutions face the same questions that were seminal for the development of democracy in Eastern Europe, writes Tatjana Vaxberg in the online newspaper Glasove: "What to do with guilty dictators? Try them? Kill them? Place them under house arrest? Eastern Europe has done it all. Now it's the turn of Egypt, Syria, Yemen, Tunisia and Libya. In some of these countries the outcome is clear, others are still in the throes of armed struggle and it's too early to say how things will unfold. But anyone familiar with the [Eastern European] original will already get the impression from the copy that the Arab World is busy making the same mistakes committed by Europe - by flouting or even abusing justice. For the way justice is meted out now in the Arab World will determine these societies' approach to democracy and justice in the future. Events are now unfolding there as they once did on another continent, which didn't know what to do with its Ceaușescus, Zhivkovs, Honeckers and Jaruzelskis, but nevertheless built its idea of law and justice on just that."

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