Radovan Karadzic according to The Economist :
Mr Karadzic was born in Montenegro and came to prominence as the head of the main Bosnian Serb nationalist party, which emerged with the end of communism in Bosnia and Yugoslavia.
A poet, a convicted fraud and at one time the psychiatrist of Sarajevo’s football team, he at first co-operated with his Muslim and Croat political counterparts.
But as Yugoslavia began to disintegrate his party, which took directions from Serbia’s authoritarian leader, Slobodan Milosevic, made preparations for war, distributing arms provided by the Yugoslav army.
In October 1991, as war raged in neighbouring Croatia, the Bosnian parliament gathered to debate whether to declare independence from Yugoslavia.
Mr Karadzic thundered that a declaration of sovereignty would take the republic “down the same highway of hell” that Croatia was suffering.
He added that Bosnia’s Muslim leaders would lead their people to annihilation.
No compromise was possible.
Mr Karadzic declared that Serb parts of Bosnia would secede and that eventually they would join a Greater Serbia.
As the war broke out in April 1992, Sarajevo was besieged and hundreds of thousands of Muslims and Croats were driven out of areas that Mr Karadzic intended to secure for his Republika Srpska.
The war was a disaster for all, ending only with all parties exhausted in 1995.
The UN indictment removed Mr Karadzic from power but his Republika Srpska still exists, although Bosnian Muslims say it was founded on genocide.
