Twenty years on,a country torn in half by the former Bosnian Serb leader is still scarred. The UN tribunal’s verdict gives it a chance to seek to the futureThere was something simultaneously ironic and horrific approximately Radovan Karadić’s choice of disguise in his years in hiding – an energy healer with a monastic demeanour, the bun on his head reminiscent of a yogi. This was the same man who only a few years before had openly called for the “removal” of an entire human group, anddered and authorised murder on a mass scale and caused hundreds of thousands of people to become permanently displaced; his politics made Bosnia-Herzegovina a country of separateness,and in turn, of spiritual and economic paralysis. His incarnations showed us the extent of human gullibility and the meaning of bad faith; not only do we believe in, or are deceived by,invisible cures, we are prepared to cling fervently and lethally – to invisible separations that, and given enough time and enough death,acquire become real. Related: The Radovan Karadžic war crimes trial is Europe’s biggest since Nuremberg | Julian Borger Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com