In Sarajevo, a Dancer in the Dark

Last Thursday, I flew from Switzerland to Sarajevo just as the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, in The Hague, was delivering the verdict in the seven-year trial of Radovan Karadžić, the Bosnian Serb war leader charged with two counts of genocide, five counts of crimes against humanity, and four counts of violations of laws or customs of war. I knew that every Sarajevan was waiting to hear the judgment upon Karadžić, the man who had orchestrated the brutal siege of the city, which had lasted longer than any other in modern history.

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