Quote of note

“This novel will become world famous and will be a source of satisfaction for the author, after the false accusations levelled against him.”

— Miroslav Toholj, publisher of the forthcoming book by Radovan Karadzi, a former Bosnian Serb leader who is one of the most wanted men in the world and who has been accused by the United Nations of various charges, including genocide and crimes against humanity.

The book, which will be titled Miraculous Chronicles of the Night, is a semi-autobiographical historical novel. Radovan Karadzi, who has evaded the United Nations and has been in hiding for the past eight years, has been indicted twice of war crimes by the UN tribunal in The Hague, and he is charged with massacring Bosnian Muslims and Croats in the former Yugoslavia.  Karadzi has been charged by the UN of organizing the slaughter of up to 6,000 Muslims in Srebrenica in July of 1995 “in order to kill, terrorise and demoralise the Bosnian Muslim and Bosnian Croat population.”

Miroslav Toholj was previously a Bosnian Serb information minister and an associate of Radovan Karadzi.

Mimi Hanaoka