Yes, the timing suits Serbia's entry into the EU. His whereabouts seem to have been an open secret to many,
as this recent article suggests.
I'll be happy to see Serbia enter the EU, though. Collective guilt is a tricky concept to apply - we (the West) have not had a particularly great track record over the past 40 years, or even ten years.
I was in Serbia a year ago and liked the people I met there. As a friend put it, a lot of them did not vote for Milosevic. On the other hand, a lot of Serbs will deny that their countrymen did anything wrong in the breakup of Yugoslavia. And turning it around again, a lot of our countrymen will deny that our boys have done aught but good in the world in the last 100 years.
The breakup of Yugoslavia was a bloody mess and people have suffered all over. If this settles more than incites, then great.
I have to admit, I'm curious to see how the evidence trail of the trial is going to work, which I'm not so proud about. Karadzic was portrayed as Europe's Dr Evil when I was a teenager.