Karadzic in the dock - UN trial has relevance for us all

RADOVAN KARADZIC stands indicted of 11 counts of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.

He is accused of orchestrating the worst massacre seen in Europe since the end of World War II when, at Srebrenica in July 1995, Bosnian Serb forces murdered 8,000 men and boys.

This ethnic cleansing was the violent expulsion, kidnapping, jailing, torture, murder or rape of civilians by those trying to build an ethnically homogeneous state. That it took place during a brutal civil war does not excuse it no more than the acceptance that terrible wrongs were committed by each side in that conflict.