The Lowdown is, of course, the arrest of Radovan Karadzic, the leader of Serbs in Bosnia during the wars caused by the implosion of Yugoslavia, which was known as the "Butcher of Sarajevo."
psychiatrist by profession, amateur writer (and worst poet, by the way *), Karadzic in Bosnia-Herzegovina embodied the dream of "Greater Serbia" as representative in the late twentieth century of irredentism, the remnant of nineteenth century Woodrow Wilson thought he had removed at the end of the Great War.
Karadžić
camouflaged, however, as they could witness the many victims of the Third Balkan War (more than eighty years after the first two), followed latent nationalism behind the facade of socialism and its society "classless" (and, of course, without differences or national privileges). As a representative mosaic of the crossroads of civilizations, triple hinge uniting Catholic, Orthodox and Muslims, Yugoslavia had a multicultural existence only through the dominance of the ruling League of Communists of Yugoslavia. It disappeared, disappeared also the cohesion as rigorously monitor the eponymous hero of Yugoslavia, Josip Broz Tito. And every people demanded blood and fire that considered him, in what became a veritable slaughter of all against all.
crimes Karadžić not have been possible only in an environment of exalted nationalism and distrust towards others, hatred against anyone would say that was not part of "our." Before that collapse, Sarajevo was known and praised for its multicultural atmosphere for the peaceful coexistence of its three main communities. In the same building families could live together without problems Serb, Croat and Bosnian abounded even intermarriage.
All this disappeared at once, the cry of war proclaimed by Slobodan Milošević, then president of Serbia, collected by Karadžić in turn led to political and military terms by General Ratko Mladic.
We know that history is a great teaser: the three most responsible for the unspeakable tragedy Balkans, Milosevic died in a cell at criminal court established to try war criminals in Yugoslavia, Karadzic managed to evade the hand of justice over twelve years, Mladic, meanwhile, remains at large.
Now that Karadzic's arrest made the news again in the situation in the former Yugoslavia, the question is if they are responsible not only disappeared, but the real causes of this ethnocide fratricide. I think that not enough measures are taken to prevent a similar outbreak, there or anywhere else on the planet. Hatred ancestral, historical mistrust, intolerance to anything that smacks of difference continue incubating until man learns to live in peace with himself.
* To sample this button:
I was born to live without grave
this body will never die
is not only to smell the flowers
but also to burn, kill and reduce to dust.
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