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>> Everybody who in any way helped Bush Blair and Howard
BREAKING NEWS:
Radovan Karadzic, Europe's most wanted man, arrested for war crimes
· Bosnian Serb indicted over Srebrenica
· Fugitive on the run for 12 years
The man indicted for the Srebrenica massacre and the Sarajevo siege, among
other war crimes, was arrested by Serbian security officers and taken
before a war crimes court in Belgrade, according to a statement from the
office of the Serbian president, Boris Tadic.
Karadzic was said to have been under surveillance for weeks after a
tip-off from an unnamed foreign intelligence agency, and had been picked up
in Belgrade. The prosecutor's office at The Hague war crimes tribunal said
it expected Karadzic to be handed over "in due course".
Last night he was undergoing formal identification, including DNA testing,
and was scheduled to meet investigators. Heavily armed security forces took
up position around the court, a precaution against a backlash from
ultra-nationalists.
The arrest came on the eve of a European foreign ministers' meeting about
Serbia's ties with the EU, which has made action against Karadzic and his
former military commander, Ratko Mladic, a condition of member****p. It also
came days after the formation of a pro-western coalition government pledged
to pursue EU accession.
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/963253/Radovan-Karadzic
Belgrade, 22 July. Radovan Karadzic, the ex Serbian-Bosnian president
accused of crimes against humanity, and captured by the authorities of
Belgrade, was working under false name as a doctor near the Serbian
capital.
He had grown a beard, and changed his name to Dragan Dabic. He was working
in an alternative medicine doctor's office. According to a first
reconstruction of the Serbian press and his lawyer, Karadzic was captured
on
a bus which was travelling from Belgrade to Batajnica, a town north of the
capital. In a first photograph after his arrest he seems unrecognizable,
visibily thin.
a.. BBC News: Karadzic 'Worked in Serb Clinic' (July 22, 2008)
a.. B92 News: Karadžic "Practiced Alternative Medicine" (July 22, 2008)
a.. Radio Netherlands: Karadzic Led Normal Life (July 22, 2008)
a.. Telegraph: Radovan Karadzic Was Disguised As Doctor (July 22, 2008)
a.. ABC News: Hiding in Plain Site, Karadzic Arrested in Serb Capitol
(July
22, 2008)
a.. The Associated Press: Karadzic to Reunite with Old Comrades... (July
22,
2008)
a.. The Guardian: War Crimes Fugitive Radovan Karadzic Arrested (July 21,
2008)
Authorities missed arresting Karadžic in 1995, when he was an invitee of
the
United Nations. During his visit to the United nations in 1993, he was
handed a service of process for a civil claim under the Alien Tort Act.
The
Courts ruled that Karadžic was properly served and the trial was allowed
to
proceed in United States District Court[7]. From 1996 until 2008, he was a
fugitive indicted for war crimes by the International Tribunal for the
Former Yugoslavia; the Interpol warrant cites assault, crimes against
humanity, crimes against life and health, genocide, grave breaches of the
1949 Geneva conventions, murder, plunder, and violations of the laws or
customs of war. The indictment [8] charges Karadžic on the basis of his
individual criminal responsibility (Article 7(1) of the Statute) and
superior criminal responsibility (Article 7(3) of the Statute) with:
a.. Two counts of genocide (Article 4 of the Statute - genocide,
complicity in genocide);
b.. Five counts of crimes against humanity (Article 5 of the Statute -
extermination, murder, persecutions on political, racial and religious
grounds, persecutions, inhumane acts (forcible transfer));
c.. Three counts of violations of the laws or customs of war (Article 3
of
the Statute - murder, unlawfully inflicting terror upon civilians, taking
hostages);
d.. One count of grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions (Article 2 of
the Statute - willful killing).
In his defense, his sup****ters say that he is no more guilty than any
other
war-time political leader. His ability to evade capture for over a decade
made him a local hero among the Bosnian Serbs, despite an alleged deal
with
Richard Holbrooke. In 2001, hundreds of sup****ters demonstrated in sup****t
of Karadžic in his home town. In March 2003, his mother, Jovanka, publicly
urged him not to surrender.
In November 2004, British defence officials conceded that military action
was unlikely to be successful in bringing Karadžic and other suspects to
trial, and that putting political pressure on Balkan governments would be
more likely to succeed.
In 2005, Bosnian Serb leaders called on Karadžic to surrender, stating
that
Bosnia and Serbia could not move ahead economically or politically while
he
remained at large.
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