AFP - Jul 21, 2008
BELGRADE (AFP) - Serbia said Monday that its security forces captured Radovan Karadzic, the wartime Bosnian Serb leader accused of genocide, after nearly 13 years on the run from the UN war crimes tribunal.
"Radovan Karadzic was located and arrested tonight" by Serbian security officers, said a statement from the office of Serbian President Boris Tadic.
y further information about the time and place of Karadzic's arrest.
The Associated Press - Jul 21, 2008
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) - Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, accused architect of massacres making him one of the world's top war crimes fugitives, was arrested on Monday evening in a sweep by Serbian security forces, the country's president and the U.N. tribunal said.
Karadzic is accused of masterminding mass killings that the U.N. war crimes tribunal described as "scenes from hell, written on the darkest pages of human history."
r President Slobodan Milosevic, who was ousted in 2000 and died in 2006 while on trial on war crimes charges.
The Nelson Mail - Jul 21, 2008
MOST WANTED: Bosnian Serb wartime president Radovan Karadzic, one of the world's most wanted men, has been arrested.
Related Links
ng of EU Foreign Ministers which is scheduled to discuss closer relations with serbia following the formation of a new pro-western government. A war crimes prosecutor was due to visit Belgrade on Tuesday.
RTE.ie - Jul 21, 2008
A statement from the office of Serbian President Boris Tadic said Radovan Karadzic was located and arrested by Serbian security officers.
Mr Karadzic has been indicted for genocide over the 43-month siege of Sarajevo which claimed 12,000 lives and for orchestrating the 1995 massacre of some 8,000 Muslims at Srebrenica, the worst atrocity in Europe since World War Two.
ter they were charged with war crimes committed during Bosnia's 1992-1995 war. General Mladic is still at large.
Sydney Morning Herald - Jul 21, 2008
Bosnian Serb wartime leader and top war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic has been arrested, Serbian President Boris Tadic's office said Monday.
Times Online - Jul 21, 2008
War crimes fugitive Radovan Karadzic has been arrested in Serbia after 12 years on the run. The Bosnian Serb wartime leader, one of the world’s most wanted
BBC News - Jul 21, 2008
Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic has been arrested in Serbia, presidential and government sources in Belgrade say. The Bosnian Serb wartime
International Herald Tribune - Jul 21, 2008
AP THE HAGUE, Netherlands: A former Bosnian Serb police chief pleaded innocent Monday to 12 charges of murder, torture and persecution of Bosnian Muslims
BalkanInsight.com - Jul 21, 2008
21 July 2008 Belgrade _ Serbian officials both in Belgrade and the Serb entity of Bosnia deny having any knowledge of the whereabouts of the three remaining war crimes fugitives.
The remarks come just days before The Hague Tribunal’s chief prosecutor Serge Brammertz’s trip to the Serbian capital.
pam): captcha image