FOR FOUR YEARS, RADOVAN KARADZIC was the Bosnian Serbs' fuhrer. The self-proclaimed President of the Republika Srpska defied the world, and his course as leader was as unrestrained as his trademark double-winged haircut. A psychiatrist and sometime poet, Karadzic based his implacable ideology on ethnic purity and enforced it with paramilitary storm troopers who intimidated moderate Serbs and used brutality and terror to drive Muslims out of his lands. But last week it was clear that his authority as voice of his people was at an end. He could barely command the attention of a group of fellow Bosnian Serbs at...
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