December 04, 2007
where's karadzic?
A heavy morning mist lifts to reveal sweeping meadows above the riverside town of Foca in Eastern Bosnia: receding mountain ridges and nestled hamlets surrounded by haystacks. But what the emergent sun does not illuminate is the whereabouts of the man believed hidden in this vast landscape, with its closed doors and its impervious inhabitants: Radovan Karadzic, former leader of the Bosnian Serbs.Karadzic - for 12 years fugitive from a supposedly rigorous search effort by the intelligence services and soldiers of the West. Karadzic - with his military counterpart, General Ratko Mladic - indicted and wanted for genocide and a bloody litany of war crimes against innocent civilians during the tempest of mass murder, massacre, mass rape, concentration camps and 'ethnic cleansing' (a term Karadzic himself devised) they unleashed against the Bosnian Muslims and Croats in 1992. A tempest that continued for three years until the Srebrenica massacre of 8,000 men and boys over five days in 1995.
more from The Observer Review here.
Posted by Morgan Meis at 08:38 AM | Permalink
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This is the best rebuttal to those who say: "how come they ("Bush") haven't found bin Laden!".
If a bunch of Europeans can't find Karadzic on their own home turf (Europe), how can you expect a bunch of Americans to find bin Laden on HIS home turf?
To which of course the cynics will then reply that "They" (Bush and his cronies) haven't found Karadzic nor bin Laden because it's all part of Bush's 'conspiracy'!
Of course, the cynics think Bush is an "idiot", but yet he's somehow still smart enough to pull off a conspiracy whereby he intentionally hasn't captured bin Laden nor Karadzic!
Posted by: Jim Bray | Dec 4, 2007 11:56:10 AM
I don't think the two cases are comparable. The reason Karadzic and Mladic haven't been arrested is because they are being protected. Many people are protecting them - the people in Bosnia who believe they did the right thing by killing Bosniaks, the Serbian authorities and security services, and even in some cases Western forces, who look the other way rather than pursuing them. (The French in particular have a horrible record in this case.)
There is a conspiracy to protect these two.
Posted by: Hektor Bim | Dec 4, 2007 12:05:39 PM
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