Radovan Karadzic collared
Excellent, excellent news. If only we were as tenacious in pursuing our own war criminals.
You have to hand it to his captors. He hasn’t been easy to find, especially when he’s been spending most of his time living in the Middle Ages.
All that remains to be seen now is whether Radovan calls an old friend as a character witness…
Posted on July 21st, 2008 at 11:00 pm
Not long ago I shared a first class train ride with John Reid and his massive, burly entourage and odd looking wife.
I watched him entertain a small child for 30 minutes and found it very disturbing but stangely sweet.
Daniel Hoffmann-Gill’s latest blog post… On Torture…
Perhaps we can add J R to the indictment sheet for genocide in Iraq and Afghanistan ( along with the rest of the war criminals in the Cabinet) and he coud cal on RK.
Having said that, we must remeber that the US helped Gen. Antegovina mrcilessly ethnically clean the serbs from Bosnia, the first action to start the whole thing off.
Vague recall that RK’ and his wife were / are psychologists and shared interests with JR in this.
The inability to bring in Radovan Karadzic was being used by some to criticise the Yugoslavian court, and international tribunals in general, like the ICC. His capture is enormously good news, but it’s not entirely clear that this does help the argument for international tribunals, since his capture was entirely as a result of the eventual cooperation of the (new) Serbian government.
‘Our war criminals’ are rather like ‘our Nazi rocket scientists’.
As The Clash sung:
If Adolf Hitler flew in today
They’d send a limousine anyway…