Arresting Radovan Karadzic: Euphoria and Reality

JURIST Special Guest Columnist William Montgomery, US Ambassador to Yugoslavia (later Serbia and Montenegro) from 2001-2004, says that as the euphoria over the arrest of Radovan Karadzic fades and reality sets in, it's clear that his case poses continuing challenges for the Serbian government, the European Union, and of course the prosecutors and judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia who wish to avoid the damage done to the local credibility of that court by the trials of Slobodan Milosevic and Vojslav Seselj... In 1996 and early 1997, as Special Advisor to the President and Secretary of State for Bosnian Peace Implementation, my biggest confrontations and challenges were not with the various Bosnian parties, but in the relationship between our offices in the State Department and our... [read full story]