| Bosnian war crimes fugitive Karadzic arrested in Sarajevo |
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 Jul.22.- Radovan Karadzic, the Bosnian Serb wartime leader, was arrested by Serbian security forces after spending 13 years in hiding to avoid charges of genocide over the murder of almost 8,000 Muslims at Srebrenica."Karadzic was handed over to the investigative judge of the Special War Crimes Court in Belgrade,'' Serbia's National Security Council, led by President Boris Tadic, said in an e-mailed statement late yesterday. It gave no further details. The court must present criminal charges before extraditing Karadzic to the United Nations court in The Hague. Proceedings may last for days. Karadzic, 63, went into hiding in 1995. The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague accused Karadzic and Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb military commander, of responsibility for atrocities committed during Bosnia-Herzegovina's 1992-95 war, which killed an estimated 250,000 people and drove another 1.8 million from their homes. Cooperation with the UN war crimes court is the key for Serbia's bid to join the European Union. Full implementation of the Stabilization and Association agreement with the EU is also conditional on the arrest of war crimes suspects ... [ full text ] |
