One of the world's most notorious fugitives, former Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic, was arrested just hours ago in a Serbian police raid. Thus ends his 13 years of evading justice. The elusive Karadzic was the world's most-wanted war crimes suspect.
This is welcome news. For years, reports have come in of Karadzic sightings in the Balkans -- these reports seemingly verified, now, by his seizure at the hands of the Serbian police.
Karadzic was a psychiatrist (!) before becoming a "diehard Serbian nationalist politician." Abetted by his chief partner in crime, former Serbian military chief Ratko Mladic, and others, the Serbian leadership
persecuted and "ethnically cleansed" (committed genocide against) Bosnian Muslims, and Croats -- by the tens of thousands.
Karadzic is the suspected mastermind of mass killings that the U.N. war crimes tribunal described as "scenes from hell, written on the darkest pages of human history." They include the 1995 massacre of 8,000 Muslims in Srebrenica, Europe's worst slaughter since World War II.
"This is a very important day for the victims who have waited for this arrest for over a decade. It is also an important day for international justice because it clearly demonstrates that nobody is beyond the reach of the law," said Serge Brammertz, the tribunal's head prosecutor
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Karadzic is being haled before the Serbian war crimes court, which likely means he'll be speedily sent on for trial for war crimes at The Hague.
I hope Karadzic's arrest will send shivers down the spines of other war criminals around the world. I hope they toss and turn at night, and have fearsome dreams. I mean you, Robert Mugabe, you brazen murderer of political opponents, you starver of innocent children whose parents voted the wrong way. I mean you, Than Shwe, Maung Aye, Thura Shwe Mann, and the other seven members of the secretive military junta oppressing the democratic aspirations of the Burmese people. And I mean you, George W. Bush, you loathsome disgrace to the uniform, you oath-breaking wrecker of our Constitution and our country, you fabricator of phantom enemies and needless wars, you creature almost too odious for words.