INSTANT VIEW - Reactions to arrest of fugitive Karadzic

(Reuters) - Below is reaction to the arrest of Bosnian Serb wartime president Radovan Karadzic, one of the world's most wanted men for his part in civilian massacres.

U.N. SECRETARY-GENERAL BAN KI-MOON:

"The Secretary-General commends the Serbian authorities for this decisive step toward ending impunity for those indicted for serious violations of international humanitarian law during the conflict in the former Yugoslavia," the United Nations said in a statement.

"This is a historic moment for the victims, who have waited thirteen years for Mr. Karadzic to be brought to justice."

U.S. REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE JOHN McCAIN

"At long last, Karadzic, whose rule was marked by horrific atrocities -- from daily murders to the massacre at Srebrenica to the siege of Sarajevo -- can receive the justice he so systematically denied to Bosnians... We should now look forward to the day when all indicted war criminals -- in particular Ratko Mladic -- are held accountable for their crimes."

LAWRENCE EAGLEBURGER, U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE DURING THE

YUGOSLAV WARS, AND EARLIER A U.S. AMBASSADOR TO YUGOSLAVIA:

"He has blood on his hands... I'm sure there were a number of people in the (Serbian) military and the police who almost certainly knew more or less where he was and could have picked him up."

KARADZIC'S WIFE LJILJANA ZELEN-KARADZIC:

"I can only say that we are in shock and disbelief," she told reporters gathered in front of her sister's house in Pale, Karadzic's wartime stronghold.

BOSNIAN MUSLIM LEADER HARIS SILAJDZIC:

"This is at least some satisfaction for the families of victims. Justice cannot be fully met without Karadzic's and Mladic's arrest. But the fact remains that Milosevic is dead, Karadzic is arrested but their project of ethnic cleansing unfortunately still lives on in Bosnia-Herzegovina."

"This will have a positive effect on Bosnia. We need this catharsis, we need people to know there is justice."

RAJKO VASIC, A SPOKESMAN FOR THE PARTY OF BOSNIAN SERB PM

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