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The arrest of Bosnian Serb war crimes fugitive Radovan Karadzic is an important step in the reconciliation process in the Balkans, Christiane Amanpour, CNN senior international correspondent, says.

Karadzic is accused of ordering the deadly siege of Sarajevo in what is now Bosnia and atrocities including the 1995 massacre of 8,000 Muslims in Srebrenica.

Amanpour, who has covered the conflict in the former Yugoslavia since its beginnings in the early 1990s, offered her thoughts on what Karadzic's arrest after 13 years on the run means for the Balkans. Read full article »

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