Radovan Karadzic captured

[The Large One]

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Serbia captures fugitive Karadzic

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 has been brought before Belgrade's war crimes court, in accordance with a law on cooperation the Hague Tribunal, the Serbian presidency said. The Bosnian Serb wartime political leader disappeared in 1996. He had been indicted by the UN tribunal for war crimes and genocide over the 1995 massacre at Srebrenica.

His wartime military leader, Ratko Mladic, remains at large.

"Radovan Karadzic was located and arrested tonight" 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 cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia."

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. After the Dayton accord that ended the Bosnian war, the former nationalist president went into hiding. International pressure to catch Mr Karadzic mounted in spring 2005 when several of his former generals surrendered and a video of Bosnian Serb soldiers shooting captives from Srebrenica shocked television viewers in former Yugoslavia.

 

[steward 433]

Good glad they finally caught the murdering bastard

 

[The Clown of Pevensey Bay]

Obviously one of the most significant things to take place in the world this year.

But not on NSC where if it doesn't involve bickering about Kuipers, or restaurant recommendations, it ain't worth it.

 

[Questions]

Obviously one of the most significant things to take place in the world this year.

But not on NSC where if it doesn't involve bickering about Kuipers, or restaurant recommendations, it ain't worth it.

Talking of restaurants that 'Casa Don Carlos' is so overated.

 

[Alex Alex Dawson oo! oo!]

Obviously one of the most significant things to take place in the world this year.

Most certainly is and hopefully that animal Mladic will also be apprehended in the near future. I wonder if this means that Serbia is now politically committing itself to Europe (and the EU)?
Should be an compelling trial in the Hague, if he ever makes it the Netherlands.

 

[beorhthelm]

But not on NSC where...

people dont spot the irony of themselves detracting and veering discussion away from an news event by noting how news events are often passed by.

quite suprised he's avoided detection for so long.

 

[bigc]

Most certainly is and hopefully that animal Mladic will also be apprehended in the near future. I wonder if this means that Serbia is now politically committing itself to Europe (and the EU)?
Should be an compelling trial in the Hague, if he ever makes it the Netherlands.

Well I hope this diminishes fear of any potential violence around the Kosovo area. It is all too easy to forget just how bloody the Balkans were during the 1990s, the fact that such barbarity happened on our own country is a very sobering thought and it seems to have been forgotten even since the menace of terrorism became everyones fear.

Looking back at the numbers killed in Bosnia, it's incredible just how horrific the slaughter was.

 

[The Large One]

I wonder if this means that Serbia is now politically committing itself to Europe (and the EU)?

quite suprised he's avoided detection for so long.

You don't think those two statements might somehow be linked?

 

[Alex Alex Dawson oo! oo!]

You don't think those two statements might somehow be linked?

No doubt about it; I think it's been widely believed/known for years that the Serbian Gov't has been shielding Karadzic, Mladic et al.
However, Boris Tadic was elected as Serbia's president in February on a very pro-EU ticket whereas his opponent, Tomislav Nikolic, ran a nationalistic, pro-Moscow campaign. His (Tadic's) compaign was also in favour of co-operating with the UN War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague.

 

[steward 433]

Mladic being the brains behind it all will be harder to catch IF he is still alive

 

[Questions]

Obviously one of the most significant things to take place in the world this year.

But not on NSC where if it doesn't involve bickering about Kuipers, or restaurant recommendations, it ain't worth it.

Kuipers needs competition I say.

 

[desprateseagull]

how many points does he get, on scrabble?

 

[Alex Alex Dawson oo! oo!]

how many points does he get, on scrabble?

Probably more than the 7,500 you'd get for Srebrenica.

 

[Buttinhams]

Karadzic vs Thatcher? Mmmmm think Karadzic might edge it on here.

 

[Cadiz Seagull]

Should be indicted for crimes against hairdressing as well.

Lock the bastard up and throw away the key (not that I'm prejudging the trial, you understand)

 

[Man of Harveys]

His disguise was a cunning one - David Bellamy playing Dumbledore:

 

[severnside gull]

Probably more than the 7,500 you'd get for Srebrenica.

Exceptional

One down (hopefully not a token) and one to go.

 

[withdeanwombat]

There is just a smidgeon of a thought that the Serbs could have arrested him any time in the last 10 years,and it has taken a change in Serb politics and the prospect of EU entry to get them to stroll round to his luxury villa and pick him up.

 

[The Large One]

There is just a smidgeon of a thought that the Serbs could have arrested him any time in the last 10 years,and it has taken a change in Serb politics and the prospect of EU entry to get them to stroll round to his luxury villa and pick him up.

As was implied by myself and Alex Dawson further up the page.

 

[Brighton Breezy]

Serbia more than likely to get EU status now?