Karadzic’s Arrest Highlights Psychiatry’s History Of Ethnic Cleansing
The capture of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic will bring to justice a psychiatrist whose genocide of thousands was reminiscent of Nazi psychiatric crimes during World War II, and that few people are aware that the "ethnic cleansing" -- ridding a geographical area of racially "inferior" people - carried out in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and later in Kosovo, was based on the same psychiatric-inspired racial hygiene programmes that led to the Nazi Holocaust.
In 1992, CCHR formally submitted to the World Psychiatric Association, the World Federation for Mental Health and the Mental Health Division of the World Health Organisation information concerning the psychiatric atrocities committed in the region formerly called Yugoslavia.
CCHR presented the same information about psychiatry’s role in initiating and conducting the "ethnic cleansing" atrocities in Bosnia-Herzegovina to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights.
On September 1, 1999, members of the Council of Europe signed a Resolution, "Human suffering and degradation following ethnic cleansing," that recognised the two psychiatrists as "the architects of the ethnic cleansing campaign" in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia.
In 1992, CCHR formally submitted to the World Psychiatric Association, the World Federation for Mental Health and the Mental Health Division of the World Health Organisation information concerning the psychiatric atrocities committed in the region formerly called Yugoslavia.
CCHR presented the same information about psychiatry’s role in initiating and conducting the "ethnic cleansing" atrocities in Bosnia-Herzegovina to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights.
On September 1, 1999, members of the Council of Europe signed a Resolution, "Human suffering and degradation following ethnic cleansing," that recognised the two psychiatrists as "the architects of the ethnic cleansing campaign" in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia.
Posted on 23 Jul 2008 by cchr
