BELGRADE, THE HAGUE, 09. DEC. 2016 – Former Bosnian Serbs leader Radovan Karadzic stated after he was sentenced to 40 years in prison, for genocide in Srebrenica during the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina that “whoever did it was a traitor to the Serb people and damaged the Serb interests the most”. “This has never happened in our history, and must not have happened then. That was completely idiotic and stupid, to commit a crime that could have been avoided, and at the end of a war that we were winning. For us it was a completely unexpected and incredible. As if a disturbed mind had done it,” Karadzic said in the interview for the Belgrade Nedeljnik weekly. “I experienced the war with great sadness, even before the war broke out. I was pretty sure what would happen if the course of events continued, with the push towards an illegal and unilateral independence. And not just based on the past but on what happened in Croatia in 1991,” underlined Karadzic. He said that according to him, the main culprits for the war were “outside Bosnia and Yugoslavia.” “Although inter-ethnic relations were not ideal, we did very well with both Muslim and Croat parties. I had a very good relationship with Mr. (Bosniak Muslim leader Alija) Izetbegovic…,” Karadzic remarked. The first president of the Serb Republic and the Hague convict regrets the collapse of Yugoslavia and the way it was dismantled. “If Yugoslavia had to be dismantled, it should have been done like in Scandinavia. I liked Croatia, where I received a good part of my education, and I’ve personally never had any problems, but their feelings against Yugoslavia and the Serb prevailed and resulted in one more bloodshed, “said Karadzic. In the interview for Nedeljnik, Kradzic also spoke about the pre-war arrangements with Alija Izetbegovic, his stance toward Croatia, a proposal of unification of Serbia and the Serb Republic made to Izetbegovic, Milorad Dodik, the memories of encounters with Aleksandar Vucic, why he still perceives Sarajevo as his city, what he would be doing today if he were free…
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