Ever Dance With The Devil Under The Pale Moon Light?

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WIKIPEDIA: Radovan Karadžic (Serbian Cyrillic??????? ???????pronounced [râdo?a?n kârad?it?]); born June 19, 1945 (1945-06-19) (age 63) in Petnjica, SR Montenegro, SFR Yugoslavia) is a former Bosnian Serb politician, poet and psychiatrist, currently under arrest for war crime charges. Educated as a psychiatrist, he co-founded the Serbian Democratic Party in Bosnia and Herzegovina and was the first President of Republika Srpska from 1992 to 1996. He was a fugitive from 1996 until July 2008 after having been indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).[1] The indictment concluded there were reasonable grounds for believing he committed war crimes including genocide, against Bosnian Muslim and karod.jpgBosnian Croat civilians during the Bosnian War (1992–1995).[2] While a fugitive he worked at a private clinic in Belgrade specialising in alternative medicine and psychology under the alias Dr. Dragan David Dabic under the company name of “Human Quantum Energy”.[3] In 2007 he lived in Vienna, Austria under the name Petar Glumac posing as the Croatian seller of herbal solutions and ointments.[4] He was arrested in Belgrade on 21 July 2008 and brought before Belgrade’s War Crimes Court.[5]

FINANCIAL TIMES: Police in riot gear took up positions around the Serbian capital Belgrade yesterday, in a show of strength aimed at preventing a violent nationalist backlash over the expected extradition of Radovan Karadzic to The Hague this week. The former Bosnian Serb political leader faces charges of genocide and other crimes at the United Nations tribunal for the former Yugoslavia over his role in the 1992-1995 Bosnian war.

Boris Tadic, the pro-western president whose office announced Mr Karadzic’s arrest a week ago, has since received death threats, as have the chief war crimes prosecutor and key cabinet ministers, according to their spokesmen. In a further sign of the darkening political atmosphere, a hardline nationalist MP, Vjerica Radeta, at the weekend pointedly likened Mr Tadic to Zoran Djindjic, the pro-western prime minister assassinated in 2003. “We remind Tadic that in Serbia there is no forgiveness for treachery. We are not threatening, just warning him of the curse that follows all traitors in Serbian history,” she said at a Radical Party press conference at the weekend. MORE

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ESQUIRE 1997: I am here to talk to Karadzic, who, until very recently, was the least sought, most wanted war criminal in the world. Why does a psychiatrist wake up one morning and decide it’s time to kill his neighbors? And how has he managed to keep the world at bay? Two weeks ago, NATO came calling, and a British team killed indicted war criminal and Karadzic crony Simo Drljaca, the police chef of Prijedor, in a botched snatch attempt. The White House had given the green light, and another indicted war criminal was successfully captured the same day. Just days before, Karadzic was breezing through NATO checkpoints in his Mercedes.

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Radovan Karadzic is on the phone. He is wounded and in search of a little understanding.

“Why does America hate me?” he pleads. “What did I do wrong?”

The fugitive Bosnian Serb leader, indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal at The Hague in 1995 for genocide in the war that killed two hundred thousand people, sounds tired, with just a touch of whine, somebosnia.jpg manufactured outrage, and real fear in his toast-master’s voice. His English is pretty good.

“How can they call me the worst war criminal in the world’” Things have gotten way out of hand. It’s all a terrible misunderstanding. Others are to blame.

“I was a moderate!” he cries. “We didn’t kill any prisoners of war!”

He never imagined that this day would come, and now he wants to meet somewhere and set things straight.

“I’m not in charge. I wasn’t in charge then. I’m not a magician; I can’t make more than a million

people follow me. I can’t stop them from committing acts of violence.” MORE [Highly Recommended]

WIKIPEDIA: On October 13, 1991 future president of Republika Srpska, Radovan Karadžic expressed his view about future of Bosnia and Bosnian Muslims: “In just a couple of days, Sarajevo will be gone and there will be five hundred thousand dead, in one month Muslims will be annihilated in Bosnia and Herzegovina”. [30]

ratko.jpgWIKIPEDIA: Ratko Mladic (Serbian Cyrillic????? ??????pronounced [râtko ml??dit??]), born March 12, 1942, was the Chief of Staff of the Army of Republika Srpska (the Bosnian Serb Army) during the Bosnian War of 1992-1995. Mladic was recognised as the top military general by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague in connection with the 1992-1995 Siege of Sarajevo and the massacre of around 8,300 Bosniak Muslims on July 11, 1995 at Srebrenica.[1] There is currently an outstanding international arrest warrant against Mladic following the Rule 61 of ICTY which concluded that there are reasonable grounds for believing that the accused has committed the crimes in question including genocide.[2] The United States government has offered a $5 million reward for his and Radovan Karadžic‘s (who was arrested in Belgrade on July 21, 2008) arrests.[3] On October 11, 2007, the government of Serbia announced that 1 million would be rewarded for information which would lead to the capture and arrest of Ratko Mladic.[4] His whereabouts are currently unknown.

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