...And One to Go

After eluding capture for more than ten years, Bosnian Serb war criminal Radovan Karadžić is finally in custody. He is at least partly responsible for one of the most horrifying events of the 1992-1995 Bosnian War when he organized the massacre of nearly 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica, then designated a UN safe area. Now in custody, Karadžić has already gone before the Belgrade War Crimes Court and will soon be extradicted to the ad-hoc International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague where he will face charges of genocide and crimes against humanity. While this is clearly big news for families of the victims, it also helps Serbia's chances of admittance to the European Union. More broadly, as ICTY prosecutor Serge Brammertz said, Karadžić's arrest "demonstrates that nobody is beyond the reach of the law and that sooner or later all fugitives will be brought to justice." The next fugitive in line: Ratko Mladić, also indicted by the ICTY for genocide.