The Nation, “Truth or Dare In Bosnia”, 22 Sep 1997
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One curiosity for my friends in the Balkans. This is the portrait of Radovan Karadzic, on the cover of The Nation, drawn in 1997 by Milton Glaser.
From Wikipedia:
Karadžić was accused by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) of personal and command responsibility for numerous war crimes committed against non-Serbs, in his roles as Supreme Commander of the Bosnian Serb armed forces and President of the National Security Council of the Republika Srpska. He was accused by the same authority of being responsible for the deaths of more than 7,500 Bosniaks (Muslims). Under his direction and command, Bosnian Serb forces initiated the Siege of Sarajevo.
Karadžić also was accused of ordering the Srebrenica genocide in 1995, which began on this day thirty years ago. At the time the magazine was issued, he had gone into hiding, and would not be arrested until July 2008. On 24 March 2016, he was found guilty of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, and sentenced to 40 years imprisonment.
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