What's going on with Radovan Karadzic??

[ancienthibby]

I thought this guy was actually in prison in The Hague, yet today the prosecution could not produce him in court!!??

[lapsedhibee]

I thought this guy was actually in prison in The Hague, yet today the prosecution could not produce him in court!!??

He's still deciding who's going to get the gig as his court hairdresser.

[Bayern Bru]

He was participating in a Father Ted lookalike competition.

[Jonnyboy]

I thought this guy was actually in prison in The Hague, yet today the prosecution could not produce him in court!!??

Refused to leave his cell apparently :bitchy:

Will be tried in his absence if he continues to refuse to attend

I was gobsmacked when I heard the trial might last for 3 YEARS!

[hibsdaft]

i suspect quite a few people would be happy if this trial never went ahead.

re: the length of trial, its pretty difficult to pin some of the specific crimes on these guys. the Milosovic trial was probably harder because he was further from the actual conflict than Karadizx iirc, but the last i heard before he died was a BBC reporter saying that even after several years most observers didn't feel there was enough evidence to pin the war crimes committed on him. he then died so we'll never know how it would have ended.

[PeeJay]

i suspect quite a few people would be happy if this trial never went ahead.

re: the length of trial, its pretty difficult to pin some of the specific crimes on these guys. the Milosovic trial was probably harder because he was further from the actual conflict than Karadizx iirc, but the last i heard before he died was a BBC reporter saying that even after several years most observers didn't feel there was enough evidence to pin the war crimes committed on him. he then died so we'll never know how it would have ended.


a) Guilty Bosnian Serbs perhaps?

b) This Bosnian Serb git was responsible for the death of 100,000 people during the 1992-95 war, mainly Bosnian Muslims. Karadzic is said to have orchestrated a systematic campaign of murder and terror to rid Bosnia of all non-Serbs ... I think there is indeed enough evidence on the table, I just don't feel that the people allegedly in charge of proceedings at the Hague are acting professionally enough or with due haste.

Seems to me these genine "war criminals" - as opposed to the nonsense regarding Blair - have orchestrated proceedings to their own advantage during this trial, precisely because they know that the evidence against them is overwhelming. They're not seeking out anyone who can prove their innocence: they're playing for time, that's all!

The Court in The Hague should be less conciliatory towards Karadzic and get on with it - lock him up forever and let him read the tales related by the families of the dead wishing to have their truth reported here.