Radovan Karadzic arrested
This is really an exciting, historic day. It’s not really the end of anything except this one awful man’s freedom. But it does bring one sad chapter in our shared history to a close.
I have no connection to Serbia or to that awful war; but I remember Srebenica and the embattled Bosnian 5th Corps; I remember the awful fate of Sarajevo (I remember when the Olympics were there; and I remember when that beautiful city was shelled into rubble because of men like Arkan and Karadzic).
And I remember that it was a joy to see American air power rip Serbian warplanes out of the sky and send their army scurrying for cover, but it was far too little and too late. All those lives were senselessly cast away while we sat and watched, and then again, like so many times before, muttered ‘never again’. Darfur, anyone?
The pro-western government that ostensibly aided in apprehending him will pay a heavy price I think; it’s not like the nationalists in Serbia have just rolled over. Neither, I think, are they a dying breed.
But this is a good day, a happy day; whether or not justice is served, he will not likely ever go free.