The Psychiatrist As Torturer: How Karadzic Waged Genocide

Karadzic practised as a psychiatrist at Kosovo Hospital until he became the president of the Republika Srpska in 1992, taking some of his nurses and doctors with him; he used his training to plan terror tactics for ethnic cleansing; he never renounced his profession. From The Sydney Morning Herald: The arrest of the psychiatrist Radovan Karadzic raises a profound question: was Karadzic merely a doctor who ran a genocide, or did his profession as a doctor play a significant part in his genocidal role? The evidence points incontrovertibly to the latter: Karadzic practised as a psychiatrist at Kosovo Hospital until he became the president of the Republika Srpska in 1992, taking some of his nurses and doctors with him; he used his training to plan terror tactics for ethnic cleansing; he never renounced his profession. What do we... [read full story]