Institute for Research on Suffering of the Serbs in XX c.

PREFACE

As part of large-scale and consistent efforts to publish, one at a time, the less known works and papers by Dr Radovan Karadzic as well as works written about him, we shall begin issuing Karadzic's works with a collection of his wartime orders. At the moment when they were issued, from 13 June 1992 to the very end of the war in 1995, they were extremely important as the most reliable testimony to the persistent and unbreakable will of Dr Radovan Karadzic to prevent commission of war crimes (which are hard to evade in any war, particularly the civil and religious one) and should such crimes occur, to have their perpetrators discovered and brought to justice immediately.

After seven years and horrible wars which were waged meanwhile and during which inconceivable crimes were committed, the publication and reconsideration of Karadzic's warfare commands aimed at the prevention of war crimes appear somewhat superfluous and unnecessary. The new masters of the world, mostly embodied in the only remaining super-power, not only did nothing to timely hinder war crimes during the aggression of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization against FR Yugoslavia and the US and British invasion in Afghanistan, but committed the very same crimes firmly believing that they are untouchable, let alone indictable before any national or international court. Compared with such "warriors", who qualified all their crimes as "collateral damage", Dr Radovan Karadzic differs significantly and may be said to have fought chivalrously in comparison with the new masters of the world.

O R D E R
ON THE APPLICATION OF INTERNATIONAL WARFARE LAW RULES
IN THE ARMY OF SERB REPUBLIC
OF BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA