A quick posting to comment on Karadzic's capture:
When I asked our tour guide in Sarajevo, a young woman of about 25 (she was 8 years old when the siege started and remembers it clearly, but with an interesting perspective of a child), how she perceived the healing in her country since the war, she responded that her country wouldn't totally heal until two war criminals were brought to justice and she mentioned Radovan Karadzic by name. The other criminal she mentioned is Gen. Radko Maldic.
We were not in Sarajevo when they captured Karadzic but we were in Zablijak, Montenegro, a town and an experience I will post on next. I was speaking with a photojournalist named Marco who is Serbian and served in the Yugoslavia National Army (really, the Serb military) when he was 18 - 20.
He is not nationalistic and he did not believe in the Serbian cause which is why they probably kept him in Belgrade in a more administrative position than a front line military position. He expressed his relief that Karadzic was captured but did say that the former government (recently replaced 2 weeks ago) must have known all along where he was hiding and must have had the help of either the Orthodox church or government officials. Serbia wants to join the EU and has been under pressure to produce these two war criminals. With the new government at the helm, it looks like they are producing results.
More on Montenegro later.
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