Radovan Karadzic, shown here in 1995, is accused of committing war crimes in Bosnia during a 1992-1995 war.

Editor’s note: The man called the “Butcher of Bosnia” has finally been caught. Radovan Karadzic led Bosnian Serbs back in the 1990s. He also allegedly led a campaign to kill Bosnian Muslims in what was widely called ethnic cleansing. CNN’s Chief International Correspondent, Christiane Amanpour, joined us on AC360°. She offered this perspective earlier by phone.

This is a very good day for international justice. Radovan Karadzic has been on the run for more than 10 years now. He was indicted twice back in 1995, not just for the siege of Sarajevo and the wholesale slaughter of Bosnian Muslims and Croats around Bosnia, but also more specifically for the massacre at Srebrenica on July 11, 1995, when more than 7,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were separated and slaughtered.

This was the worst massacre in Europe since World War II. And after the U.S. brokered the Dayton Accords, which ended the Bosnian war, Radovan Karadzic was meant to be handed over, along with his fellow henchman, the former Bosnian Serb General, Ratko Mladic, who is still on the run.

This, of course, has been a great shame for the international community. They have refused to get too far into trying to capture him while NATO forces were in Bosnia. They were afraid of getting hurt. They were afraid of all sorts of instability, and they did not go after him hard enough.

His being at large has held up Serbia’s full integration into the international community and the European Union.  His capture and Mladic’s capture have been a condition for accepting Serbia into the European Union

And now he’s been captured after many, many years hiding out, finally captured in Serbia.  It’s been welcomed by the head of the War Crimes Tribunal in the Hague, where Radovan Karadzic will shortly be dispatched to hear the formal charges and face prosecution.