VOA标准英语2008年-Arrest of Radovan Karadzic: Why Now and Who's N

The lawyer for former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic say he will conduct his own defense¹ before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague, where he faces charges of genocide and war crimes committed in Bosnia in the 1990s. Karadzic was arrested near Belgrade on Monday and could be extradited to The Hague within days, but the fact that he's been on the run for nearly 13 years and working and living in Belgrade in disguise raises questions over who knew, why he was arrested now and whether his one time military commander, Ratko Mladic, might soon face the same fate. Sonja Pace has this report from London.

The man with the long white hair, thick beard and spectacles went by the name of Dragan Dabic and had seemingly no trouble peddling² his skills as a traditional healer. The disguise worked well enough to allow him to live and work in Belgrade and even his neighbors insisted that they had no idea that behind this fa?ade was Radovan Karadzic, one time leader of the Bosnian Serbs and war crimes suspect.

But Radovan Karadzic's time ran out.

Serbian officials announced that Karadzic had been arrested, questioned, had his identity established and was then handed the indictment³ from the International Criminal Court.

Western leaders welcomed the arrest and many quickly noted⁴ it was proof the newly-elected government of President Boris Tadic was committed to cooperating with the international tribunal and to getting Serbia into the European Union.

Speaking with VOA from Belgrade, James Lyon, the senior Balkan analyst⁵ for the International Crisis Group, the Brussels-based risk assessment⁶ organization, said there is no doubt that President Tadic and his party are committed to Europe, but he says there are doubts they could have engineered the arrest.

"The difficulty is that they hadn't yet been in power long enough to establish control of any sort over the police or over the secret police. Let's keep in mind they just appointed a director of the secret police four days before this happened, that was certainly not enough time to go in and get the ball rolling," said Lyon.

The question remains⁷, who decided⁸ it was time to give Karadzic up. Balkan analyst Svetozar Rajak at the London School of Economics says while the government may not have had time to organize the operation, some individuals could have.

"We know that the outgoing head of the intelligence services, Mr. Bilatovic was praised in the past even by Carla del Ponte [former prosecutor⁹ of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia] as cooperating with western intelligence services in pursuing and trying to apprehend¹⁰ both Karadzic and [Ratko] Mladic," said Rajak.

Rajak says it is also quite certain that a number of people in the intelligence apparatus¹¹ must have known Karadzic was hiding in their midst.

"For him to evade¹² so long as one of the most wanted fugitives¹⁴ in the world, you require a very complex and expert intelligence operation and it's very costly¹⁵ and requires a good organization and so forth," added Rajak.

Questions about who knew, for how long and who gave him up, will linger. But, says James Lyon, the Serbian government should still be congratulated.

"I think what's important to say is that Serbia got him. That's the first and most important thing," he said. "How they did, why they did it is not important."

The Serbian government has said it is preparing to extradite Karadzic to The Hague. He faces charges of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity for his part in the Bosnian war of the 1990s. He and his one-time military commander, Ratko Mladic are specifically linked to the Srebrenica massacre¹⁶ of 1995 in which 8,000 Muslim men and boys were killed and to the nearly four-year-long siege of the Bosnian capital Sarajevo, in which it is estimated that more than 10,000 people were killed.

Mladic remains at large and James Lyon says there must be continued pressure for his arrest.

"Over the years Serbia has always said, there are no war crime indictees in Serbia and yet they keep coughing them up in fits and starts, depending on political expediency," said Lyon. " So, it's very clear - Ratko Mladic is in Serbia, he can be arrested by the Serbian authorities, provided there's the political will. We need to say, let's get it over with. There are only two more left."

The second and last fugitive¹³ wanted by the international tribunal is Croatian Serb leader Goran Hadzic.

The EU has set the handover of all war crimes suspects as a key condition for any future Serbian membership in the European Union.

 

1 defense   

n.防御，保卫；[pl.]防务工事；辩护，答辩

参考例句：

• The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
• The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。

2 peddling   

忙于琐事的，无关紧要的

参考例句：

• He worked as a door-to-door salesman peddling cloths and brushes. 他的工作是上门推销抹布和刷子。
• "If he doesn't like peddling, why doesn't he practice law? "要是他不高兴卖柴火，干吗不当律师呢？

3 indictment   

n.起诉；诉状

参考例句：

• He handed up the indictment to the supreme court.他把起诉书送交最高法院。
• They issued an indictment against them.他们起诉了他们。

4 noted   

adj.著名的，知名的

参考例句：

• The local hotel is noted for its good table.当地的那家酒店以餐食精美而著称。
• Jim is noted for arriving late for work.吉姆上班迟到出了名。

5 analyst   

n.分析家，化验员；心理分析学家

参考例句：

• What can you contribute to the position of a market analyst?你有什么技能可有助于市场分析员的职务？
• The analyst is required to interpolate values between standards.分析人员需要在这些标准中插入一些值。

6 assessment   

n.评价；评估；对财产的估价，被估定的金额

参考例句：

• This is a very perceptive assessment of the situation.这是一个对该情况的极富洞察力的评价。
• What is your assessment of the situation?你对时局的看法如何？

7 remains   

n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹

参考例句：

• He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
• The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。

8 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

9 prosecutor   

n.起诉人；检察官，公诉人

参考例句：

• The defender argued down the prosecutor at the court.辩护人在法庭上驳倒了起诉人。
• The prosecutor would tear your testimony to pieces.检查官会把你的证言驳得体无完肤。

10 apprehend   

vt.理解，领悟，逮捕，拘捕，忧虑

参考例句：

• I apprehend no worsening of the situation.我不担心局势会恶化。
• Police have not apprehended her killer.警察还未抓获谋杀她的凶手。

11 apparatus   

n.装置，器械；器具，设备

参考例句：

• The school's audio apparatus includes films and records.学校的视听设备包括放映机和录音机。
• They had a very refined apparatus.他们有一套非常精良的设备。

12 evade   

vt.逃避，回避；避开，躲避

参考例句：

• He tried to evade the embarrassing question.他企图回避这令人难堪的问题。
• You are in charge of the job.How could you evade the issue?你是负责人，你怎么能对这个问题不置可否？

13 fugitive   

adj.逃亡的，易逝的；n.逃犯，逃亡者

参考例句：

• The police were able to deduce where the fugitive was hiding.警方成功地推断出那逃亡者躲藏的地方。
• The fugitive is believed to be headed for the border.逃犯被认为在向国境线逃窜。

14 fugitives   

n.亡命者，逃命者( fugitive的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Three fugitives from the prison are still at large. 三名逃犯仍然未被抓获。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Members of the provisional government were prisoners or fugitives. 临时政府的成员或被捕或逃亡。 来自演讲部分

15 costly   

adj.昂贵的，价值高的，豪华的

参考例句：

• It must be very costly to keep up a house like this.维修这么一幢房子一定很昂贵。
• This dictionary is very useful,only it is a bit costly.这本词典很有用，左不过贵了些。

16 massacre   

n.残杀，大屠杀；v.残杀，集体屠杀

参考例句：

• There was a terrible massacre of villagers here during the war.在战争中，这里的村民惨遭屠杀。
• If we forget the massacre,the massacre will happen again!忘记了大屠杀，大屠杀就有可能再次发生！