Radovan Karadzic captured

[Ken L]

I'm suprised he was ever caught.

Faking his death after completing the second serise of Father Ted was a stroke of gennius.

[Tony U]

On a more serious note, as an old Bosnia Lag, I am glad they got the murdering b*****d hopefully Mladic will follow.

[DavyR]

I'm suprised he was ever caught.

Faking his death after completing the second serise of Father Ted was a stroke of gennius.

 

So who was that in the third series, then?

[Ken L]

There were three serise ?

Damn. I hate it when a finely crafted theory falls apart the the face of a few basic facts......

[nursejudy]

just lets hope he gets put on trial before the time limit runs out

[Ken L]

Joking aside, I was in the former Yogoslavia just three months before the war kicked off and travelled overland from Hungary to the coast via Zagreb. The tention was palpable when I was there and Karadzic was just one of the turds that floated to the top of the barrel when it was shaken up. Lets just hope that he gets what's comming to him.

[five bellies]

Joking aside, I was in the former Yogoslavia just three months before the war kicked off and travelled overland from Hungary to the coast via Zagreb. The tention was palpable when I was there and Karadzic was just one of the turds that floated to the top of the barrel when it was shaken up. Lets just hope that he gets what's comming to him.

Agreed!

 

but in one of the most libral courts in the world unfortunatly

 

and thats comming from a man with libral views on crime and punishment

[nursejudy]

Last night he was undergoing formal identification, including DNA testing, and was scheduled to meet investigators. Heavily armed security forces took up position around the court, a precaution against a backlash from ultra-nationalists.

 

The arrest came on the eve of a European foreign ministers' meeting about Serbia's ties with the EU, which has made action against Karadzic and his former military commander, Ratko Mladic, a condition of membership. It also came days after the formation of a pro-western coalition government pledged to pursue EU accession.

 

The European commission president, José Manuel Barroso, said Karadzic's arrest "proves the determination of the new Serbian government to achieve full cooperation with the [Hague tribunal]. It is also very important for Serbia's European aspirations."

 

A US official spoke last night of heightened expectation that Mladic, also wanted on genocide charges, would be arrested.

 

Richard Holbrooke, the American diplomat who helped negotiate an end to the Bosnian war, described Karadzic as the Osama bin Laden of Europe, and "a real, true architect of mass murder".

 

The prosecutor at the Hague tribunal, Serge Brammertz, issued a statement welcoming the arrest and congratulating the Serb authorities. "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 and that sooner or later all fugitives will be brought to justice."

 

In Sarajevo, there were celebrations in the street when the news broke, and cars drove through the centre of the town honking their horns.

 

Karadzic's wife, Ljiljana, told the Associated Press from her home in Karadzic's former stronghold, Pale, that her daughter Sonja had called her before midnight. "As the phone rang, I knew something was wrong," she said. "I'm shocked. Confused. At least now we know he is alive."

 

Karadzic faces charges of genocide and crimes against humanity inflicted on Bosnian Muslim, Bosnian Croat and other non-Serb civilians in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the 1992-95 war, when he was president of the breakaway Republika Srpska.

 

The charge sheet includes the murder of nearly 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica, after the supposedly UN-protected enclave fell to Bosnian Serb forces. The former psychiatrist and aspiring poet is also charged with running death camps for non-Serbs, and the shelling and sniping on civilians in the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo, in a siege that lasted more than three years.

 

After the war and deployment of Nato troops, Karadzic and Mladic disappeared from public view. But this month a democratically elected, pro-western Serbian government came to power, a 10-party coalition run by former finance minister Mirko Cvetkovic and aligned with the reformist Tadic. Both came to office with a mandate for reform and closer ties with the EU.

 

It was suggested last night that Karadzic had been tracked down by a Serbian "action team" devoted to hunting down war crimes suspects.

[chesters1]

strange all the fuss about a chap who kills "invading" (albeit very slowly by stealth) muslims yet we invade a country that really belongs to them and kill far more ,strange why blair and bush aren't infront of the same court

the clue is in "ethnic" albanians ie they originate in albania why put on trial someone who wishes to keep foreigners out had it been done long ago there wouldnt be the majority there is now.

no matter they still hate each other and will despite being "given" a complete country will kill each other for another 800 years.

i'v only respect for someone who loves his country so much any means are used to keep johny foreigner out either for ethnic or damn me for saying it religious grounds.

we can see first hand in the Uk how things change when foreign ways try to manipulate the state or change the residents ways of life to suit theres !!!!there's was on a huge scale compared to ours

if all countries stopped foreigners or foreign influence "invading" most would be far more stable than they are now! the UK especially ,i'm not saying better but more stable.if we stopped sticking our noses in others business we certainly would be better off!

 

if foreigners want to slaughter each other why should we go to the expense (in money and our young mens lives) of doing it for them rather than letting them do it for themselves

or worse going to the expense (in money and our young mens lives) of stopping them doing it

our war criminals are in plain veiw snubbing their noses at the world,genocide is not unknown to the west infact we are very good at it and ethnic cleansing a speciality ,not only that we make a very nice living supplying the means to do it either through advice or materials of war.

why cant people use any means to protect their country ? whats the difference in lining up those that threaten them and shooting them or dropping bombs from high altitude the results the same or is it bombing means its "cleaner" ? there are no rules in war only losers ,i think he should get community service probably just like he would over here.

the balkans have a history of genocide bringing a couple of small scale players before a court wont make the slightest difference it will go on!! hate boils to the surface on the slightest excuse

Edited July 24, 2008 by chesters1

[Sportsman]

i'v only respect for someone who loves his country so much any means are used to keep johny foreigner out either for ethnic or damn me for saying it religious grounds.

 

Sums it up

Hitler did a pretty good job too, eh chesters