In the course of following the arrest and extradition of former Bosnian Serb leader, Radovan Karadzic, I was especially intrigued by this.

Charges against Mr Karadzic comprise:

11 counts of genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and other atrocities, the shelling of Sarajevo during the city's siege, at the cost of roughly 12,000 civilian lives, the organisation of the massacre of up to 8,000 Bosniak men and youths in Srebrenica, the targeting of Bosniak and Croat political leaders, intellectuals and professionals, the unlawful deportation and transfers of civilians because of national or religious identity, and the destruction of homes, businesses and sacred sites.

However, it seems that there was a side to this man that few ever got to know.  Beneath the ruthless and genocidal exterior, there dwelt a sensitive soul, in touch with the cosmic balances of the Earth, at one with the cycles of nature, and a conduit for that great and universal energy that is called "love".  He probably even owned CDs of whales singing. 

Because, after all that carnage, destruction and ethnic cleansing (and assuming the identity of a retired farmer who knew nothing about any of this until recently), Radovan Karadzic became an alternative therapist.  Taken under the wing of a veteran con-artist "bio-energy healer" called Mina Minic, the former Bosnian Serb leader started a new life for himself, transferring energy between people and the universe with the use of little bits of twisted metal.

This article here even gives the account of someone whose wife was treated by Karadzic in his guise as an alternative therapist.

The lesson here: inside every vicious, murdering, despotic bastard, there's a fuzzy little hippy yearning to buy some healing crystals.

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