Word: serbians
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...cave or a safe house; no secret bolt-holes or special security details shielded him. Instead, the former Bosnian Serb leader, one of the world's most wanted men, was hiding in plain view amid the drab, anonymous housing blocks of New Belgrade, a suburb of the Serbian capital. He was nabbed not by NATO, whose forces had spent 12 years in a vain and sometimes desultory search for him, but by the security forces of Serbia - the country whose designs for grandeur he had so ardently tried to further. In the end, it seems, political will rather than operational...
...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...
...created by concentrated regional action than by generic international pressure. It was African leaders like Thabo Mbeki and Olesegun Obasanjo who acceded to Liberia's demand to put Taylor behind bars, and it was the European Union that used its financial and political leverage to sway the Serbian government...
...when the bombastic poet-psychiatrist was arrested on July 21, the scene bore no resemblance to the one I had pictured. He wore his hair in a ponytail and sported giant spectacles and a beard. He feebly turned himself over to the Serbian police as soon as they approached him near Belgrade. It had taken 13 years to put Karadzic behind bars, but his final minutes of freedom give some indication of the degrading life he had been leading - and showed the value of international justice, which deserves far more credit than it gets...
...litany of rogues who once boasted of their impunity but later ended up in the dock is surprisingly long, and each has been rapidly emasculated by his fall. A few years ago, I visited the Hague courtroom where former Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic was being tried. Unlike when he had engineered the dismemberment of Yugoslavia and forced more than 2 million Bosnians from their homes, Milosevic was not in charge. As he ramped up his rant against the judges to a fever pitch, the judge simply turned off Milosevic's microphone, leaving him gesticulating wildly and foolishly but emitting...