Joy in the Balkans

Let us be grateful that the personage of Radovan Karadzic is under arrest.

Richard Holbrooke who negotiated the peace in the Balkans in 1995 has just described the arrest as being "equivalent of catching Europe's Osama bin Laden" and added that

One of the worst men in the world, the Osama bin Laden of Europe, has finally been captured. A major, major thug has been removed from the public scene."
"He was at large because the Yugoslav army was protecting him. But this guy in my view was worse than Milosevic

Karadzic was alleged to be behind the massacre along with his army commander, General Ratko Mladic, at Srebrenica, where some 8,000 unarmed Bosnian Muslim males were rounded up and murdered and bulldozed into mass graves in July 1995.He was also behind the the shooting of civilians during the Sarajevo siege in which an estimated 11,000 people were killed.