Karadzic Arrested after 13 years

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Captured Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic was practising alternative medicine and living in Serbia’s capital, Belgrade.

He was working in a private clinic in a “very convincing disguise”, sporting a long white beard, and calling himself Dragan Dabic, a Serb official said.

He was arrested on Monday near Belgrade after more than a decade on the run.

He is indicted by the UN tribunal for war crimes and genocide over the 1995 massacre at Srebrenica.

A judge has ordered Mr Karadzic’s transfer to the UN war crimes court in The Hague, Serbia’s war crimes prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic said.

Mr Karadzic’s lawyer, Sveta Vujacic, has said he will appeal against the ruling; he has three days to do so.

THE CHARGES
Eleven counts of genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and other atrocities
Charged over the killing of some 12,000 civilians during the siege of Sarajevo
Allegedly organised the massacre of up to 8,000 Bosniak men and youths in Srebrenica
Targeted Bosniak and Croat political leaders, intellectuals and professionals
Unlawfully deported and transferred civilians because of national or religious identity
Destroyed homes, businesses and sacred sites

Voices from Serbia and Bosnia
Rasim Ljajic, the Serbian minister for relations with the international war crimes tribunal in The Hague, said Mr Karadzic had been living very convincingly as a non-Serbian citizen, using false papers.

“The fact that he was involved with alternative medicine, earning his money from practising alternative medicine, shows that he worked. He was working in a private practice and the last place where he had residence was New Belgrade,” Mr Ljajic said at a news conference in Belgrade.

“Mr Karadzic walked around freely, even appeared in public places. The people who rented him the apartment did not know his true identity,” Mr Vukcevic said.

Certain people who had been helping Mr Karadzic had been under surveillance for some time, the officials added.

They said the authorities did not want to reveal any more details of the Monday evening operation so as not to jeopardise efforts to arrest two other war crime suspects on the run, including Mr Karadzic’s wartime military leader, Ratko Mladic.

Mr Karadzic had last been seen in public in eastern Bosnia in 1996 and was previously thought to have hidden in Serb controlled parts of Bosnia, Montenegro and Serbia.

I am so pleased that they have managed to get this vicious dinosaur, Jail is too good for this monster.