PBS FRONTLINE: THE WORLD’S MOST WANTED MAN http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/karadzic/
A. KARADZIC
1. IMPRESSIONS OF KARADZIC: A short but insightful sketch by
Warren Zimmerman who was the last U.S. Ambassador to Yugoslavia
2. KARADZIC THE POET: Four untitled poems.
3. KARADZIC AND THE MARKETPLACE MASSACRE: Excerpts from article, “Bosnia: The Turning Point,” The New York Review of Books,
2/5/98.
4. 1997 INTERVIEW WITH KARADZIC
5. WAR TRIBUNAL EVIDENCE: This footage was introduced into evidence at the special hearing on Karadzic held by the War Crimes
Tribunal in The Hague. The footage shows a boastful Dr. Karadzic standing with the Russian poet Liminov on a hilltop overlooking beseiged Sarajevo. Karadzic invites the Russian to fire a high-powered sniper gun into the city.
6. CHRONOLOGY OF KARADZIC’S LIFE
B. CONCENTRATION CAMPS
1. MAPPING THE SERBIAN CONCENTRATION CAMPS: “A map describing how the location of dozens of Serb ‘detention facilities’fit into their strategy for a ‘Greater Serbia.’”
2. THE HORRORS OF A CAMP CALLED OMARSKA: “Mark
Danner describes in detail the atrocities, the rapes, and the mutilations in concentration camps like Omarska—and places these crimes in the larger context of Serbian history and the Bosnian Serbs’ determination to construct a ‘Greater Serbia.’”
C. BRINGING THE WAR CRIMINALS TO TRIAL
1. THE SUSPECTS: Link to website of The Coalition for
International Justice; the site “maintains this interactive grid offering the suspect’s indictment, photo if available, and reports on latest sightings and hang-outs.
2. THE TOP LEADERS PUBLICLY INDICTED: An explanation of why there are so few top leaders on the indicted list - and who they are.

3. “INDICT SLOBODAN MILOSOVIC”: “An article by Paul Williams and
Michael Scharf which argues that the killing of over 70 civilians in
Kosovo in early March 1998 raises yet again the question of why the
Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal has not indicted Slobodan Milosevic for his continuing role in orchestrating the killings in the former
Yugoslavia.” Obviously somewhat dated. For most current information, see the official site of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former
Yugoslavia http://www.un.org/icty/
4. WHAT ABOUT MILOSOVIC? Experts involved in efforts to bring peace to the Balkans analyze the reasons why Milosevic hasn’t been indicted
5. LETTER FROM REPUBLIKA SRPSKA: Visiting the Republika of
Srpska, writer Lawrence Weschler assesses the effects of years of corruption and the recent political changes which may signal a turning point. He also explores why indicted war criminals like Karadzic whose whereabouts have been known to everyone - have not been arrested
6. DAYTON ACCORDS MANDATE FOR APPREHENDING WAR
CRIMINALS: The Dayton Accord included several references to war criminals, however Jim Hooper analyzes how politics and diplomacy have hindered their capture. He also looks at the significance of the failure to indict Slobodan Milosevic.
7. BACKGROUND ON WAR CRIMES TRIBUNAL: A summary by M.
Cherif Bassiouni of the statutes and rules creating and governing the
UN War Crime Tribunal and a rundown of the status of trials, convictions and appeals.
D. WHAT TURNED BOSNIA INTO A KILLING FIELD
1. AN EXPERT’S OVERVIEW OF THE COLLAPSE OF
YUGOSLAVIA: “The judges of the International Criminal Tribunal at
The Hague called upon Professor Paul Garde to explain the mix of history, religion, grievance and murderous ambition behind
Yugoslavia’s catastrophe. Here are the questions which Garde fielded from the judges and, his answers.” a) YUGOSLAVIA’S HISTORY: “An explanation of key historical events and what happened in the early 1990s that led to its disintegration.” b) GREATER SERBIA: “A summary of how this Serbian nationalist idea took hold and what it meant.”

c) YUGOSLAVIA’S POLITICAL STRUCTURES AND
ETHNIC GROUPS: “An evaluation of Yugoslavia’s
‘national status’ for citizens and how its five ‘nations’ after
World War II corresponded generally to its republics.” d) HOW TITO HANDLED OUTBURSTS OF
NATIONALISM: “A summary of Tito’s strategy for handling the nationalities and, the importance of the 1974 constitution.” e) BOSNIA AND HERZOGOVENIA: “How they became the most ethnically diverse republics in the former
Yugoslavia, and how the different ethnic groups interacted.” f) THE RISE OF NATIONALISM: “What led to it and an explanation of the 1986 Serbian intellectuals’ memorandum which became the roots of Milosevic’s and
Karadzic’s ideological campaigns for a ‘Greater Serbia.”
Also the role of the media in the nationalistic surge.” g) ETHNIC CLEANSING: “An explanation of how the policy originated. who promoted it , how was it defined, and how rape can be used as a weapon for ethnic cleansing.” h) THE YUGOSLAV PEOPLE’S ARMY.
2. HOW YUGOSLAVIA’S DESTROYERS HARNESSED THE MEDIA:
“Chris Bennett was a war reporter in Yugoslavia during the early
1990s and observed how the media became propagandists for the rival republics. And were exploited skillfully by leaders like
Milosevic.”
3. “’TWO KINGS’ BATTLE”: A Serbian war song about a battle fought eight decades ago.
4. “THE LAST CABLE”: “Following Yugoslavia’s collapse, its last U.S.
ambassador wrote this cable to the U.S. Secretary of State analyzing what had been destroyed and why. It’s a bitter analysis/elegy and focuses in part on Milosevic’s role in the destruction.”
E. GENOCIDE AND WAR CRIMES
1. “’NEVER AGAIN’: THE WORLD’S MOST UNFULFILLED PROMISE”:
Over the past fifty years America has led the world in condemning genocide. So why has genocide occurred so often and so uncontested? An examination by Samantha Power.

2. “ESTABLISHING AND INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT.”:
Readings on the efforts to establish a permanent world court which would have jurisdiction over genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. In July 1998 the world community overwhelmingly endorsed the creation of this International Criminal Court. 120 nations voted for the Court; the U.S. was one of seven nations voting against it.
a) THE US POSITION: A speech by David J. Scheffer, U.S.
Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues.
b) COMMON MISPERCEPTIONS: A primer on the issue prepared by Human Rights Watch c) AN ANALYSIS AND CRITIQUE OF THE US POSITION: by Jerry Fowler, Lawyer’s Committee on Human
Rights d) COMMENTS ON THE ICC: By Louise Arbour, the Chief
Prosecutor, The Hague International War Crimes
Tribunal on Yugoslavia e) NGO COALITION FOR AN INTERNATIONAL
CRIMINAL COURT: Link to site to find an up-to-date and broad selection of information on the ICC initiative.
3. INVENTING PEACE: What can Vermeer teach us about Bosnia?
Lawrence Weschler has covered the ongoing Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in The Hague and writes of a three-hundred-year-old lesson about fashioning order in a world of chaos.
4. AN ANATOMY LESSON: An essay by Lawrence Weschler in which he comes to realize the real meaning in Rembrandt’s famous painting, and how this connects to the work of the War Crimes Tribunal’s judges, lawyers and investigators
F. INTERVIEWS
1. Louise Arbour, Former Chief prosecutor, International War Crimes
Tribunal, The Hague
2. Dr. Ismet Ceric, Dr. Karadzic worked under him in a Sarajevo hospital clinic
3. Jacques Klein, Senior U.S. member of Bosnian Peacekeeping Mission
4. Marko Vesovic, Writer, poet and former friend of Karadzic