Serbia: Karadzic arrested after 13 years

Woohoo! (Let's see if they get him out of the country)

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Will definitely be asking friends in Belgrade about this one...

I wonder what happened - he can't have just gone into hiding all that time without getting at least some protection

Let's hope they get Ratko Mladić as well...

xpost yeah the only way this happened is that it made political sense for Tadic and his party for it to happen

Apparently he was hiding out in monasteries.

... does that mean he had help from the (what kind of?) church?

Serbian Orthodox, natch.

5 million dollar reward. go buy yourself something nice.

US dollars? :-(

Yep, 5 million US dollars

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1855000/images/_1857621_300wanted_ap.jpg

Oh, HYS. Do you ever fail to blame teh Muslims?

The irony of all this (at least from my perspective) is how the Islamic world is ready to throw the book at Radavan Karadzic before the ICC for crimes he committed AGAINST Muslims at Srebrenica, yet they're remiss to have Omar Al-Bashir of Sudan face the court for similar crimes - committed BY a Muslim at Darfur. You can't have it both ways.

Mike Paalz, Georgia, United States

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Word from a friend in Serbia re: her circle in general's feelings -- 'ecstatic and hopeful.' Karadzic reviled as a politician who worked 'for himself and no-one else.'

Bearing a startling resemblance to Paul Morley. Is there something we should be told?

Bears a startling resemblance to Father Ted, really!

Karadzic was caught in a frigging bus in downtwon Belgrade. The man has lived a normal life for the last 10 years. The arrest only took one simple administrative order from the government

Bears a startling resemblance to Father Ted, really!

-- Mark G, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 08:51 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

"That money was just resting in my account!"

baaderonixx otm

Well they have had a change of government recently, so it's not like some leader has waited 20 years to go "Fuck it, I'll arrest Karadzic".

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44852000/jpg/_44852630_a083f627-e932-4677-beae-3c2f509a5880.jpg

Captured Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic was manufacturing and distributing children's toys and living at the North Pole.

He apparantly worked as a doctor for the last years, under the name Dragan Dabic.

Wasn't he a psychiatrist originally?

And a poet!

So how long for Mladic?

Christ, you're right!

xpost

After all, Stalin was not a bad poet apparently

http://www.vucjak.com/images/news/Radovan_Karadzic.jpg

Football manager too!

this genocide is far away..

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44853000/jpg/_44853453_b20d2af2-3e1c-4226-a739-033822a6a6d4.jpg
"fuck washing my hat?"

Never trust a hippie

???

As in a bearded long-haired ex-poet who is a practitioner of alternative medicine?

He's really going for the Serbian Manson thing, eh?

http://embedded.eecs.berkeley.edu/Alumni/mehrotra/images/getafix.jpg

wildest war criminal cover in awhile.

(at least since Clinton's "I feel your pain")

nice harold shipman act he's got going on

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Also in the news: lots of Serbs feeling "betrayed" that their hero was arrested? Hmm.

Sad to say it, but news here in Montenegro last night had a bunch of 'man in the street' interviews, asking people for their reaction, and pretty much all of them were opposed to the arrest, thought Serbia was being controlled by those European devils, etc etc disgusting.

Is that 'man on the street' opinion based on a widespread belief that ethnic cleansing was a good thing or a widespread denial that it happened?

So eh, if the good folk of Montenegro love Serb nationalists so much, why did they make their own country independent?

^^^good question. Montenegro is pretty divided between people who consider themselves Serbs (or consider Montenegro a part of--gulp--Greater Serbia), and people who consider themselves Montenegrins. Many of those people who consider themselves Serbs, like still so many people in Serbia, are nationalist, expansionist pricks. The referendum that made Montenegro independent was won by the slimmest of margins--an awesome thing, but you can't change people's minds by fiat. Will probably take a generation or two to really get rid of the majority of the nasties.

and NBS: it's denial, obviously, also pretty straightforward rooting-for-our-team idiocy. One elderly lady said (this is my wife translating) "A Serb should never go to the Hague". It's pretty standard right-wing foreign devils stuff and it's really frightening how widespread it still is.

Karadzic's Dragan Dabic website is awesome. I would post a link, but fear luring Serb nationalist nutjobs onto ILX.

G00blar, do you reckon the voxpop only asked pro-Serbs their opinions, or only broadcast pro-Karadzic opinions because the opinions of pro independence Montenegrins are less interesting?

voxpops are a journalistic minefield. They do like 20 of them and then are in theory supposed to represent the approximate distribution of opinion. But how do you do that when you air maybe three, or even one?

could you google proof that link?

It's pretty easy to find.

yeah, we were wondering that too--it was independent (i.e., not pro-Serb, not in the pocket of the govt) news, but we still weren't sure if they'd only shown pro-Serb opinions. It was an awful lot of them (like maybe seven or eight?).

re. website - this is insane!

Dr4g4n D4b1c currently resides on Yury Gagarin street in New Belgrade, but for public forum invitations, television appearances or private consultations he can be reached directly at the following contact:

healingwounds @ xxxx.xxx

so not gonna happen

http://dragandabic.com/dragan-dabic-devojka3.jpg

do you think it's a good idea to link to that site directly? (download the pic, upload it to tinypic.com, link to that?)

not really sure what the consequences could be, but I guess better safe than sorry so could a mod pls delete this?

ok, probably nothing, but secret services looking at who visits that site (on the other hand, by now the whole internet is on there probably)

i saw the wesite linked on yahoo news report so i guess the secret is out...

Hey g00blar, thanks for the tip about BBC Weather showing "Serbia and Montenegro"... it's fixed now

oh yeah, that website is apparently a fake one, set up yesterday, though the pics are real. I understand that his actual website comes up if you google search for Psy Help Energy .

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dr-Dragan-David-Dabic/21537898029

Aha! Thanks Tracer!

xp so you're a "fan"?

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He doesn't look happy.

No wonder, The Man has cut off his hair, bummer

Maybe he was disappointed by the new Primal Scream record.

Join the queue

When will genocidal new age medicine men learn? There never was a good primal scream record and never will be.

Incubating ultraviolence, psychic distortions
Slow death injectible, narcosis terminal
Damaged receptors, fractured speech

Baaderonixx, you have revealed you are really Richie Manic.

Kenya detains suspected Balkan war crimes fugitive

'Radovan Karadzic’s New-Age Adventure':

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Before he would discuss Dabic, Minic insisted that he needed to use his visak to find out more about me. He held the rooklike pendulum in his hand. A string led to another rook, which he gently dangled at me. “You have Russian blood,” Minic said, as I sampled some sausages. I broke the news that my ancestry was in fact predominantly Scottish.

The bottom of page 3 through the top of page 4, BTW, is pure LOLWTF.

Nice slideshow as well.

Incredible photo sent to me from the Belgrade protests tonight! pic.twitter.com/psSfXZK5qf

— Valerie Hopkins (@VALERIEin140) December 29, 2018

Srebrenica: thirty years ago this weekend... crazy to think I was probably just partying in July 1995 while all this was happening

I was aware of it, and followed the news, but it was way worse than we knew at the time