Tuesday, July 22, 2008


Radovan Karadzic Captured

Bosnian Serb war criminal Radovan Karadzic was captured this week in Belgrade. The BBC has created an intense and thorough report on the rise and fall of Karadzic:

The former Bosnian Serb leader was arrested on Monday near Belgrade after more than a decade on the run.

He has been indicted by the UN tribunal for war crimes and genocide relating to the war in Bosnia in the mid-1990s.

The UN says Mr Karadzic's forces killed up to 8,000 Bosniak 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 has also been charged over the shelling of Sarajevo, and the use of 284 UN peacekeepers as human shields in May and June 1995.


Go here to read the full report.

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