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Karadzic Arrest: Celebrations in Sarajevo

Radovan Karadzic

22 July 2008  Crowds of people waving Bosnian flags and hundreds of cars honking at their horns poured onto the streets of Sarajevo as news emerged that Radovan Karadzic has been arrested in Serbia.

There is a high police presence on the main streets. "We have a strong police presence on the streets of Sarajevo. We have not even had one intervention, but we are ready to react if it is needed," the city police told Balkan Insight.

Balkan Insight contacted one of the victims from the 1992-1995 war, Bakira Hasecic from Visegrad, who said she can not believe the news.

"If somebody asked me, I would say it will never happen, especially not in Serbia. I was sure that the next thing I will hear about him is that he is dead," Hasecic told Baklan Insight.

Karadzic was the wartime President of the Republika Srpska in Bosnia and Herzegovina and has been indicted by the UN's war crimes tribunal for genocide. Read more about his arrest here: http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/main/news/11955/

The Bosnian Croat member of Bosnia's tripartite Presidency Zeljko Komisic told Balkan Insight that Karadzic's arrest is one of the most important days in postwar Bosnia, for the state of Bosnia and all of the victims who suffered during the war.

Haris Silajdzic, the Bosniak member of the Bosnian Presidency, speaking to Balkan Insight also hailed the development.

"It is a big thing for Bosnia and Herzegovina, this arrest, we are eager to see him as soon as possible in The Hague. We hope that Mladic will follow him soon in order to finish the idea the three of them, Karadzic, (wartime Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko) Mladic and (late Serb strongman Slobodan) Milosevic started."

Nura Begic, one of the survivors of the Srebrenica genocide told Balkan Insight that she is so excited about the news that she cannot sit, walk or sleep.

"I am one hundred percent sure that Mladic will come after him now," she added.

"This happened at a moment when we lost any hope that he can be arrested. We are surprised, but pleasantly surprised. I am happy that I survived until this day to hear the news that Karadzic is arrested and that he will be taken to the Hague, alive," Edin Ramulic, from victim's association in Prijedor and a Omarska camp survivor told Balkan Insight.