Former Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic Arrested

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Former Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic was arrested outside of Belgrade on Monday. The article, "Karadzic Hid in Plain Sight with False Identity, White Mane and Long Beard while on the Run," talks about how Karadzic was working as an alternative healer and disguised his identity with a long beard. He has been charged with 11 counts of genocide and including masterminding the deaths of thousands of Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica during Bosnia's 1992-95 war. The tribunal's head prosecutor, Serge Brammertz said, "It clearly demonstrates that nobody is beyond the reach of the law and that sooner or later all fugitives will be brought to justice."

In an NPR story, "Madeleine Albright Hails Karadzic Arrest," the former Secretary of State thinks the arrest is significant. "He really is the person who was behind the systematic ethnic cleansing - murder - of several hundred thousand Bosnians, and it does show that justice will prevail." In "Radovan Karadzic: the Politics of an Arrest," Eric Gordy describes the implications of the arrest for Serbia and the international tribunal at The Hague.