Eyewitness

I FIRST began to wonder what Radovan Karadzic was like when I realised one of his soldiers had put a round through the window of the Sarajevo hotel room I had just checked into.

The sniper's bullet had hit the wall, the ceiling and the wall again before dropping on the pillow of the bed – luckily before I arrived.

I didn't get to talk to Karadzic himself for a few months, and when I did, the Bosnian Serb leader was mo...