The arrest of former Republika Srpska president Dr. Radovan Karadžić has sparked the usual anti-Serb bigotry in the Western media, with some going so far as to call Dr. Karadžić the “Serbian Usama bin Laden”.
Then there is the irony of the timing of the arrest — shortly after the forming of the new Serbian government, led by the Socialist Party. That’s the same Socialist Party that so vehemently protested against the arest of its former leader, the late Slobodan Milosevic. Of course, one will do anything for power.
Dr. Vojislav Koštunica, the former Serbian Prime-Minister now opposition leader, summed up the current state of Serbian politics pretty well in his interview to Glas Javnosti — “Serbia has no independent policy.” He continued: “[The current government] only fulfills the endless demands coming from Washington and Brussels.”
Of course, it’s clear as day to anyone that the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia is just a sham. This is the same tribunal that found Naser Orić, the Bosnian Muslim commander who boasted of slaughtering thousands of Serbs near Srebrenica, not guilty. The same tribunal that acquitted Ramuš Haradinaj, the former leader of the Kosovo Liberation Army. And the same tribunal that stood through the revelations of trading body organs of Serbs, put forth by former special prosecutor Carla del Ponte.
The Russian government and the former Koštunica cabinet had already called for the shutting down of the ICTY sham, but to no avail. This time, the same old drama will be performed again, as Dr. Karadžić is tried for the “Srebrenica Massacre”, which, by the way, we now know was a hoax.
Meanwhile, Dr. Karadžić has prepared himself well. Vecernje Novosti reports that he fasted for six days, received Holy Communion, and is spending his time in jail reading the Bible and St Nicholas (Velemirovic).
For more analysis of the Karadžić arrest, see Dr. Trifkovic’s excellent article here.
