Another One Bites the Dust "Radovan Karadzic "

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Radovan Karadzic has been arrested and will be brought to The Hague to stand trial for crimes committed at Srebrenica and at other locations ...


Good news for the justice.

[pseudowizard]

Fock the Serbs!

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next one

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Warkii oo fidsan

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7518543.stm


Serbia captures fugitive Karadzic

Radovan Karadzic is one of the world's most wanted men
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 on the run.

The Bosnian Serb wartime political leader disappeared in 1996.

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

The appointment of a new, pro-European government in Belgrade last month appears to have cleared the way for his arrest, says a BBC correspondent.

The European Union, which the new government hopes to join, has put Serbia under considerable pressure to hand over indicted war criminals to the UN tribunal in The Hague.

But Mr Karadzic's wartime military leader, Ratko Mladic, remains at large.

'Located and arrested'

The arrest of Radovan Karadzic was welcomed by war crimes prosecutors in The Hague as a "milestone".

He has been brought before Belgrade's war crimes court, a legal procedure that indicates he may soon be extradited.

But it is not clear how soon he might be transferred to stand trial at the war crimes tribunal in The Hague, says the BBC's Bridget Kendall.

Serbian officials have suggested he will stay put for at least three days while his lawyer appeals against his extradition.

This is a very important day for the victims who have waited for this arrest for over a decade

Serge Brammertz
ICTY chief prosecutor


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Officials said no further information about his detention would be released until the action team of prosecutors, police and intelligence teams meet in Belgrade on Tuesday morning, the BBC's Eastern Europe correspondent Nick Thorpe says.

"Radovan Karadzic was located and arrested tonight [Monday evening]" by Serbian security officers, a statement by the office of President Boris Tadic said, without giving details.

"Karadzic was brought to the investigative judge of the War Crimes Court in Belgrade, in accordance with the law on co-operation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia [ICTY]."

Serbian government sources told Reuters news agency he had been under surveillance for several weeks, following a tip-off from a foreign intelligence service.

But his lawyer, Svetozar Vujacic, said Mr Karadzic had been detained "on Friday in a bus" and held till he was brought before the judge of Serbia's war crimes court for questioning. Mr Karadzic was said to have remained silent during questioning.

Heavily armed special forces were deployed around the war crimes court in Belgrade - apparently fearing a backlash from nationalists who consider Mr Karadzic a hero.

"He did not surrender, that is not his style," his brother, Luka Karadzic, said outside the court.

'Milestone in co-operation'

Serge Brammertz, chief prosecutor of the ICTY, welcomed the arrest.

THE CHARGES
Fifteen counts of genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and other atrocities
Charged for the killing of some 12,000 civilians during the siege of Sarajevo
Allegedly organised the massacre of at least 7,500 Muslim men and youths in Srebrenica
Targeted Bosnian Muslim and Croat political leaders, intellectuals and professionals
Unlawfully deported and transferred civilians because of national or religious identity
Destroyed homes, businesses and sacred sites
"This is a very important day for the victims who have waited for this arrest for over a decade," he said in a statement in The Hague.

In the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo, crowds spilt onto the streets to celebrate news of the arrest as cars streamed through the streets sounding their horns.

"This is the best thing that could ever happen, you see people celebrating everywhere. I called and woke up my whole family," Sarajevo resident Fadil Bico told Reuters.

Richard Holbrooke, the US diplomat who brokered the Dayton Peace Accord for Bosnia in 1995, told the BBC that "a major, major thug has been removed from the public scene".

"One of the worst men in the world, the Osama Bin Laden of Europe, has finally been captured," Mr Holbrooke told BBC World News America.

Ljiljana Zelen-Karadzic, wife of Radovan Karadzic, said her daughter had called her to break news of the arrest to her.

"As the phone rang, I knew something was wrong. I'm shocked, confused. At least now, we know he is alive," she told the Associated Press.

The arrest of Mr Karadzic and other indicted war criminals is one of the main conditions of Serbian progress towards European Union membership.

[SahanGalbeed]

Oh now that they want Omar Al Bashir , somehow Karadzic is caught eh ?
Fu.ck that shyte !

[AbdiWahab252]

Karadzic accomplished everything he wanted. His Serbs control the largest chunk of territory in Bosnia Herzegovina and run an defacto government. The Serbs accomplished the majority of their goals.

The real justice would have been to undo the ethnic cleansing but thats not going to happen.

[siren]

AbdiWahab Thank God that plan didn't work out for you guys! 8)

[AbdiWahab252]

AbdiWahab Thank God that plan didn't work out for you guys! 8)

Siren,

Do you think we were trying ?

[Cali_Gaab]

They should also put those country's on trial who were send there as a peacekeeping force and main task was to prevent this ethnic cleansing.

Holland as well as others did very little to take drastic measures and failures in this department is what's got the number of victims so high.

[siren]

AbdiWahab Thank God that plan didn't work out for you guys! 8)

Siren,

Do you think we were trying ?

Yes, it just didn't workout!

[AbdiWahab252]

Siren,

Another one of those fairy tales spun by your folks so mahan.

CaliGab,

The Dutch UN peacekeepers should have stood trial. So should have the EU which maintained an arms embargo against the Muslims which prevented them from receiving weapons to beat back the Serbs who received weapons and aid from Serbia.

[siren]

Siren,

Another one of those fairy tales spun by your folks so mahan.

Since you were there, why don't you tell us the real story? What were you guys doing?

[S-D-M]

AbdiWahab Thank God that plan didn't work out for you guys! 8)

[Cali_Gaab]

But what are the chances eh?
I'm affraid that this is just yet going to be one of those trials not worth following as the answers you seek will not be answered and for the large part overlooked.