Radovan Karadžić Arrested. Finally!
This just in: According to various news reports, Radovan Karadžić, one of Europe’s most wanted men, directly responsible for genocide of Bosnian Muslims in Bosnia-Hercegovina during the 1993-95 war was arrested in Serbia hours ago.
Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic and their political leader Radovan Karadžić (source)
The arrest was confirmed by the office of the President of Serbia Boris Tadić, without giving details. I imagine this is a high-risk game for Serbian leadership as Karadžić and general Ratko Mladić (who remains at large) have quite a following in Serbia and Republic of Srbska in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Hopefuly Serbian President Boris Tadić will fare better than the late Zoran Djindjić.
Perhaprs, just perhaps, the wars of Yugoslavia will finally be brought to an end.
EDIT: Reactions from: Belgrade 2.0 (Serbia), Zapisi (Serbia - in cyrilic), Duh koji hoda (Bosnia), Na putu u nepoznato (Bosnia), Comments From Left Field (USA) (JBlog Central (Israel)
July 22nd, 2008 at 12:49 am
Upam, da so ga res! Čeprav bi v Hagu še reje kot njega videl Mladića.
July 22nd, 2008 at 1:09 am
After the first couple of hours looking for reactions, caution seems to prevail. Noone wants to get his/her hopes too high too soon.
July 22nd, 2008 at 2:30 am
Končno so prijeli strahopetca.
July 22nd, 2008 at 3:55 am
[…] Pengovsky of Sleeping With Pengovsky: […] The arrest was confirmed by the office of the President of Serbia Boris Tadić, without giving details. I imagine this is a high-risk game for Serbian leadership as Karadžić and general Ratko Mladić (who remains at large) have quite a following in Serbia and Republic of Srbska in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Hopefuly Serbian President Boris Tadić will fare better than the late Zoran Djindjić. […]
July 22nd, 2008 at 3:55 am
[…] Pengovsky of Sleeping With Pengovsky: […] The arrest was confirmed by the office of the President of Serbia Boris Tadić, without giving details. I imagine this is a high-risk game for Serbian leadership as Karadžić and general Ratko Mladić (who remains at large) have quite a following in Serbia and Republic of Srbska in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Hopefuly Serbian President Boris Tadić will fare better than the late Zoran Djindjić. […]
July 22nd, 2008 at 5:32 pm
Apparently the war crimes he committed during the war weren’t enough for him.
To wipe out even more people, he started practicing alternative medicine!!!
July 22nd, 2008 at 6:28 pm
One has to remain in shape, I guess… Now the only remaining medicine he can practise is banging his head agaist a prison wall…
July 22nd, 2008 at 11:05 pm
Good news to wake up to this morning!
July 23rd, 2008 at 4:04 am
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July 24th, 2008 at 8:42 pm
Serbian government is dealing quite well with the situation after the arest. Hopefully, two more busts will follow soon. Let’s put these criminals into history books where they belong. (The books of crimes which happen again and again until we learn the lesson.)