PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - KB Dekleva
AU  - JM Post
TI  - Genocide in Bosnia: the case of Dr. Radovan Karadzic
DP  - 1997 Dec 01
TA  - Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online
PG  - 485--496
VI  - 25
IP  - 4
4099  - http://jaapl.org/content/25/4/485.short
4100  - http://jaapl.org/content/25/4/485.full
SO  - J Am Acad Psychiatry Law1997 Dec 01; 25
AB  - From 1992 to 1995 the Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina experienced a war of genocidal proportions between the Bosnian Serbs, the Bosnian Croats, and the Bosnian Muslims. The international Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia has indicted Dr. Radovan Karadzic--former President of the Bosnian Serb Republic, psychiatrist, and poet--as a suspected war criminal for his role in war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. Karadzic remains enigmatic and poorly understood. Psychological profiling highlights in Karadzic's case the complex coalescence of the psychology of a genocide perpetrator with that of a charismatic narcissistic political leader. Such a profile may possess usefulness in forensic psychiatric investigations and legal proceedings.