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86 ŠOLSKO POLJE LETNIK XX ŠTEVILKA 5/6particularly pertinent in this regard. It can be argued that TS neglectednegative information precisely because any reference to war crimes couldquestion the myth of Greater Serbia. Furthermore, any critical coverage ofthe past could remind the Serbs about their negative role during the BHwar. TS presented Karadžić’s arrest as a Serbian shift towards the EU – and,in that, positioned a project of »joining the EU« as a positive process, somethingthat brings Serbia closer to the EU, and to its »modern roots.«(B) ArrangementHow has TS »ordered« and »arranged« the main events of Karadžić’s arrest?As argued above, the biography of Karadžić was reported in a linear way,following historical events, but lacking any interpretation of the events. Atypical segment from TS’s program is illustrative here:1. Radovan Karadžić was born in 1945 in Petnjica village, near Nikšić. In1960 he moved to Sarajevo, where he met his wife, Ljiljana. He finishedhis BA in medicine, and became a psychiatrist in a city hospital.He was intensively involved with politics from 1989...On 12 May 1992, he became a president of Republic Srpska. He wasa president until the 30 June 1996. The same year, in 1996, he left thepolitical public life and gave the presidential power to vice-presidentof RS, Biljana Plavšić. In October 2004 he published his book Miraculusof the Night.(22 July 2008, »Radovan Karadžić – Myth and Reality«)Similarly, the events around Karadžić’s arrest followed chronological order,with no additional explanations or interpretations:2. Radovan Karadžić was arrested on the 21 July in Belgrade. After theinitial hearing, the investigative judge of Serbia’s special court on warcrimes Milan Dilparić decided that Karadžić would be extradited toThe Hague Tribunal.A day after the arrest, Serbia’s minister for UN Tribunal relations, RasimLjajić and war crimes prosecutor of the Belgrade County Court,Vladimir Vukčević showed the journalists a new photograph of RadovanKaradžić. He was living in New Belgrade under the false name ofDr. Dragan Dabić, while practicing alternative medicine.