Arrest of Radovan Karadzic
Posted by admin on January 22nd, 2009
One of the most evil Europeans of all time, Radovan Karadzic, the “Osama bin Laden of Europe,” has finally been caught.
For nearly 13 years now, Karadzic, 63, had been on the run for eleven counts of genocide and various other inhumanities. The public last saw him in 1996; sightings of him since then were limited to elaborate guises, including one as a Serbian Orthodox priest. He allegedly dwelled in mountain caves deep in Bosnia.
En route to that existence, Karadzic had been a power-tripping megalomaniac during his hegemony as the self-proclaimed Bosnian Serb president, from 1992 to 1995. There’s nothing else for him, whose spite against Bosnian Croats and Muslims resulted in methodical “ethnic cleansings” across a divided Yugoslavia, at the height of The Balkan War. His greatest claim to nefariousness was ordering the killing of about 8,000 Muslims in Srebrenicathe worst massacre in Europe since Hitler himself.
Punishment eventually came Monday night, when Serbian police patrolling central Belgrade recognized him among bus passengers. He awaits certain trial in The Hague, Netherlands, at the United Nations war crimes court, which had already indicted him in 1995.
Karadzic’s arrest is seen as the most seminal point in Serbia’s bid to become part of the European Union, the biggest trading bloc in the world. EU was reluctant in reaching out to the nation’s previous administration, which it suspected of hiding Karadzic. Conversely, the new administration is seen as pro-West.
If catching a megalomaniac had vested interests, then the world is all the better for it.
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