Tribunal condemns the entire Republika Srpska

The trial against presumed Serbian war criminal Radovan Karadžić is due to start in The Hague on Monday. Karadžić has meanwhile announced he will boycott the proceedings of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). The left-liberal daily Magyar Narancs writes: "The charges, which have been modified several times since they were first written in 1995, couldn't be more ambitious. Karadžić ... is charged with the worst possible crime: genocide. ... What is striking about the document, however, is that it puts the entire Republika Srpska on the dock. ... According to the bill of indictment, Karadžić's accomplices included not only the former President of Serbia and Yugoslavia, Slobodan Milošević, as well as the political leadership of the Bosnian Serb state, but also more or less the entire political, military, security and administrative apparatus of the Republika Srpska. ... For that reason the charges being levelled at Karadžić far transcend the simple sphere of criminal law."

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