Radovan Karadzic arrested

Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic, one of the world's most wanted men, has been arrested in Serbia after more than a decade.

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

Mr Karadzic denied the charges against him soon after the first indictment and refused to recognise the legitimacy of the UN tribunal.

The UN says Mr Karadzic's forces killed at least 7,500 Muslim men and boys from Srebrenica in July 1995 as part of a campaign to "terrorise and demoralise the Bosnian Muslim and Bosnian Croat population".

He was also charged over the shelling of Sarajevo, and the use of 284 UN peacekeepers as human shields in May and June 1995.

bald_eagle said:
I'm glad to see this. I figured he was in Argentina by now.

r00kers said:
Now, on to Radko. May they both rot in jail for the remainder of their natural lives.

Serbian intelligence officers were on the trail of Mr Karadzic's wartime military leader, Ratko Mladic, when they stumbled upon Mr Karadzic, said the office of Serbia's war crimes prosecutor.

Why the arrest occurred now is not clear. But just weeks ago, on July 7, a new pro-Western coalition government was formed in Serbia whose overriding goal is to bring Serbia into the European Union, the world's biggest trading bloc. The European Union, meanwhile, has made delivering indicted war criminals to the war crimes tribunal in The Hague a precondition for Serbia's membership, and has been particularly scathing about the continued liberty of Mr. Karadzic.