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Wed 07 Jul 2008Karadzic arrest to benefit Serbia
THE ARREST of Radovan Karadzic in Belgrade on charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Bosnia after the break-up of Yugoslavia in 1992-5 continues the politics of atrocity on which that horrible war was based.
Barely two weeks after a new coalition government was formed in Serbia with a brief to secure its passage towards membership of the European Union Karadzic was discovered working as a doctor in the city. Clearly Serb intelligence forces have waited for the political will to be put in place before moving against him.Handing him over to the special court in The Hague will fulfil one of the central conditions set out by EU foreign ministers who yesterday enthusiastically welcomed the arrest in Brussels.
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