Creative Writing Lecturer Writes on Karazdic Trial for The New Statesman

Creative Writing MA Programme Director David Savill at St Mary’s University, Twickenham has contributed an article on the trial of Radovan Karadzic to The New Statesman. Karadzic was sentenced by the ICTY for the war crime of genocide, committed in the Bosnian town of Srebenica. In his article, Savill asks whether the sentence is enough to lay the ghosts of Bosnia’s conflict to rest and asks troubling questions about current economic conditions in Bosnia, as well as the inability of ‘internally displaced persons’ to return to their pre-war homes. Savill’s first novel They Are Trying To Break Your Heart, led him to research the subject and to draw upon his own past working among Srebenica’s refugees.  David Savill will be speaking at the Oxford Literary Festival on April 2^nd. Article link: http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/staggers/2016/03/radovan-karadzic-prison-bosnias-future-still-jeopardy