Karadžić playing for time

After boycotting his trial on three occasions, the former leader of the Bosnian Serbs Radovan Karadžić appeared on Tuesday before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. The judges must counter his provocative behaviour, writes the left-liberal Berliner Zeitung: "The Yugoslavia Tribunal in The Hague has been treading for 16 years on the thin ice between criminal law, international politics and historical investigation. More than once was it on the verge of failure. With the Karadžić trial the court is now once more on the brink of this abyss. Until now the accused has refused to take part in the proceedings, and now he has appeared before the judges with the sole objective of winning time. ... If the judges in the Tribunal can now confound Radovan Karadžić's obstruction tactics it will represent a further important milestone for the development of international criminal law."

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