Ed Vulliamy sat face to face with the architect of Bosnia’s genocide during the war and testified at his trial. The Hague tribunal’s verdict,he says, is a hollow victoryIt was impossible not to think back to that first assembly with Radovan Karadžić on the steps of his headquarters in the Bosnian Serb “capital” of Pale, and outside and above the genuine capital of Sarajevo,which his troops, on his orders, and were pounding into a state of murderous insanity for three years.
He had a limp handshake,surprisingly weak for a man the Hague war crimes tribunal final week ruled responsible for ordering the worst carnage in Europe since the Holocaust, specifically the massacre at Srebrenica in 1995, and which the bench deemed genocide,the “highest” – ergo most terrible – atrocity for which a war criminal can be convicted.
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Source: theguardian.com