Re: Radovan Karadzic arrested!
The one with the mega-head and the furious haircut.
Ahhh, finally the bastard is caught.
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BELGRADE (AFP) — Bosnian Serb wartime leader and top war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic has been arrested, the office of Serbian President Boris Tadic said on Monday.
"Radovan Karadzic was located and arrested tonight" by Serbian security officers, said a presidential statement.
"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 (ICTY)," the statement said.
Karadzic and his former military commander Ratko Mladic had been on the run from the ICTY for 13 years after they were charged with war crimes committed during Bosnia's 1992-1995 war. Mladic is still at large.
The pair also face a genocide charge related to the 1995 massacre of around 8,000 Muslims in Srebrenica, the worst atrocity in Europe since World War II.
The ICTY charged Karadzic and Mladic with war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity in 1995.
The court's chief prosecutor Serge Brammertz welcomed the arrest.
"I was informed by our colleagues in Belgrade about the successful operation which resulted in the arrest of Radovan Karadzic," the prosecutor said in a statement in The Hague, the seat of the tribunal.
"On behalf of the Office of the Prosecutor, I would like to congratulate the Serbian authorities, especially the National Security Council, Serbia's Action Team in charge of tracking fugitives and the Office of the War Crimes Prosecutor, on achieving this milestone in cooperation with the ICTY."