Word: arrested
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...karma, though, that caused Karadzic's arrest to happen when it did. For years, prosecutors at the Hague have considered the Serbian government more interested in protecting Karadzic and Mladic than in finding them. That changed in early July when the coalition government led by President Boris Tadic took power in Belgrade. Tadic had narrowly defeated hard-line nationalists at the polls on May 11, aided by promises from European Union leaders that Brussels wanted to open the door to Serbia's eventual accession - provided Belgrade cooperated in bringing Karadzic and Mladic to justice...
Tadic took that charge seriously. Just three days before Karadzic's arrest, the head of the Serbian security service, Rade Bulatovic, resigned; he was quickly replaced by a young and respected investigator, Sasa Vukadinovic. Bulatovic was considered an ally of former Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica, a nationalist and staunch opponent of the tribunal. "I am sure that at least some parts of the intelligence community were involved in protecting Karadzic," says Milos Vasic, a security analyst for Belgrade's political weekly Vreme...
...member of Tadic's Democratic Party. By contrast, the government's junior coalition partner, the Socialist Party of Serbia - once led by former Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic - was less effusive. Its leader, Ivica Dacic, heads the Interior Ministry, which pointedly denied that police had been involved in Karadzic's arrest...
...even among Serb nationalists, the Bosnian war is receding into history, relegated to Serbia's long catalogue of mythic losses. Aleksandar Vucic, the secretary-general of the ultranationalist Serbian Radical Party, said the arrest marked "a horrible day for Serbia." But the spontaneous demonstrations in Belgrade against Karadzic's arrest didn't approach the intensity of February's street violence over Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence...
...justice, when carried out, offers many benefits: it can help establish a historical record, provide dignity to victims, establish individual (rather than collective) responsibility so as to end cycles of violence, and - once prospective criminals begin to fear enforcement - deter. But the most crucial functions of international indictments and arrest warrants are ones that are rarely heralded: stigmatization and incapacitation of really bad people. Even to the world's worst actors, that can be a powerful incentive to behave. It's revealing that since the ICC issued its request for an arrest warrant, Sudan's al-Bashir has improved humanitarian...