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    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/876084.stm

    Radovan Karadzic


    Captured Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic was practising alternative medicine and living in Serbia's capital, Belgrade.

    He was working in a private clinic in a "very convincing disguise", sporting a long white beard, and calling himself Dragan Dabic, a Serb official said.

    He was arrested on Monday near Belgrade after more than a decade on the run.

    He is indicted by the UN tribunal for war crimes and genocide over the 1995 massacre at Srebrenica.

    A judge has ordered Mr Karadzic's transfer to the UN war crimes court in The Hague, Serbia's war crimes prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic said.

    The Charges:

    *Eleven counts of genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and other atrocities

    *Charged over the killing of some 12,000 civilians during the siege of Sarajevo

    *Allegedly organised the massacre of up to 8,000 Bosniak men and youths in Srebrenica

    *Targeted Bosniak and Croat political leaders, intellectuals and professionals

    *Unlawfully deported and transferred civilians because of national or religious identity

    *Destroyed homes, businesses and sacred sites
    It's for people like this that I wish for some sort of hellish afterlife. Hopefully the victims can get some sort of closure from this, although I'm sure nothing can make a dent in the pain they've suffered at the hands of monsters like this.

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    My bf is totally celebrating this, he called me at work with the news. But you can understand where he's coming from considering the ethnic cleansing was of his country (among others in Yugoslavia) and that's how he ended up in the U.S. in the first place. My bf is Bosnian and has a prejudice against Serbs, especially those specifically involved in the horrific war crimes. H told me awful things he witnessed, and I'm sure Karadzic's were no different. As a child my bf saw pregnant women stabbed in their bellies, women and children raped, handicapped people burned to death after being pulled from their wheelchairs. The list of terror goes on, but I'm personally glad to see justice.

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    Amazing. And PrettyCurlieQ...your bf must be an amazing strong man to have witnessed all that and still be good enough at heart for someone like you to love!! That would have destroyed a lot of people...correction..that HAS destroyed a lot of people.

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    PCQ, that is effed-up. Yup. Glad he's caught!!!

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    Wow PCQ. Just wow. I'm glad this asshat was caught, i hope he fries.

    Love it!

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    ^You hope he fries.. I came home last night and my bf told me the worst thing I've ever heard out of his mouth: "I wish I could torture Karadzic and have someone donate a new heart to him so I could bring him back to life and torture him again!"

    It's so weird because he's such a sweet guy, I understand where he's coming from, but that comment shook me a little. He gets really fired up when there's news like that from home.

    It's okay, I'll just hug and kiss and love my Bosnian until he's all better.

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    All sides were doing the same thing, the Serbs happened to win at it though. Look at Kosovo, the muslims ethnic cleansed, raped etc, the serbs (after the US got them independence) and you haven't heard about it on the mainstream media.

    Why has no one asked o arrest French Pres Mitterand and his support of the genocidal regime in Rwanda?

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    Quote Originally Posted by glambman View Post
    All sides were doing the same thing, the Serbs happened to win at it though. Look at Kosovo, the muslims ethnic cleansed, raped etc, the serbs (after the US got them independence) and you haven't heard about it on the mainstream media.

    Why has no one asked o arrest French Pres Mitterand and his support of the genocidal regime in Rwanda?
    I'm sure they have. These guys have protection and are able to hide even in their own countries. But, Charles Taylor, the war criminal from Liberia was captured and in the process of being tried. But as corrupt as those systems are, it's hard to say whether he'll get protection or not.

    What scares me is that so many Americans have no idea of the atrocities going on all over the world at this very minute. We like to say we'd never allow another Holocaust, but that sort of "ethnic cleansing" is exactly what has happened in Bosnia, Rwanda, Liberia, and the Sudan. It's sickening how we turn a blind eye. But at the same time, I don't know that it is our place to intervene.

    One thing's for sure, people need to know what is going on. Turn off reality tv and pay attention to the real horrors in this world. At the very least it should make you appreciate your own life a little more.

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    I was reading in the NYT about how he lived in plain sight in town for a decade... he completely reinvented himself as a holistic, new agey academic.

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    I have met several Bosnians and and Croatian immigrants in the past year.....These scars run deep.

    I feel happy for them, that they can put Karadzic on trial. I'm hoping for a trial like Nuremberg. I also hope they hang him.

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    Quote Originally Posted by madmaxine View Post
    I have met several Bosnians and and Croatian immigrants in the past year.....These scars run deep.

    I feel happy for them, that they can put Karadzic on trial. I'm hoping for a trial like Nuremberg. I also hope they hang him.
    Hopefully it will go well, but recently Bosnia and Croatia both went to trial against Serbia (I didn't even know countries can sue each other!) with the charge of genocide, and both lost. I don't know exactly why, but the court found that whatever happened wasn't ethnic cleansing. My bf stayed up all night listening to the hearing live on the internet and was depressed at 5AM...

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    Sh*t I wonder if I should say something to my nail lady when she gets back from her holiday. She's Bosnian and in Bosnia right now. She left during that whole thing as well.


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    He should be tortured for a few years, like skin him and throw table salt on what's left.

    There should be a special horrible procedure for purveyers of genocide.
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    Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic is being flown from the Serbian capital Belgrade to the war-crimes tribunal in The Hague.

    He was moved a court building where he had been held since his arrest last week, after 13 years on the run. He has been indicted for crimes against humanity and genocide relating to the Bosnian conflict of the 1990s. His transfer comes hours after a rally attended by at least 10,000 supporters to protest at his arrest. {WTH????}
    Clashes broke out between police and several hundred protesters during the final speeches at the rally organised by the hardline nationalist Radical Party.
    Several people were injured as riot police fired tear gas at protesters armed with rocks and burning flares.

    Charges
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    Mr Karadzic led the formation of a separate Bosnian Serb assembly in 1991 - one of the sparks that ignited the 1992-1995 Bosnian war. He has been indicted for crimes against humanity and genocide over the massacre of up to 8,000 mainly-Muslim Bosniaks at Srebrenica in 1995. He has also been charged over the shelling of Sarajevo, and the use of 284 UN peacekeepers as human shields in May and June 1995.
    today from BBC
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