McBlogmick

According to an article in the International Herald Tribune, Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian-Serb President has been arrested, thirteen years after he was indicted for war crimes committed in the conflict in the former Yugoslavia. This is really a huge victory for the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, which indicted him in 1995 in connection with a massacre of almost 8000 men and boys in a town called Srebrenica. He was also charged in connection with crimes committed by forces under his control throughout the conflict, beginning in 1992.

Karadzic is generally viewed as the architect of the "ethnic cleansing" in that conflict, using his training as a psychiatrist to whip up a nationalistic frenzy, manipulate the beliefs of Bosnian Serbs, and inspire terror in the Bosnian Muslim and Bosnian Croat populations. Based on the work I did documenting the use of sexual violence in this conflict, I am very pleased to see him arrested, and will be even more pleased to see him tried by the Tribunal.