July 22, 2008
Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic caught
by Tracy Wilkinson and Zoran Cirjakovic,
Los Angeles Times
BELGRADE, SERBIA -- Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, accused architect of a campaign of ethnic mass murder and a war crimes fugitive for more than a decade, was captured Monday by Serbian security forces, officials said.
Indicted on multiple charges of genocide and crimes against humanity, Karadzic for years eluded NATO forces and myriad investigators seeking to bring him to justice. He served as president of the self-declared Bosnian Serb Republic and came to symbolize the repression of an entire population of Bosnian Muslims.
Karadzic, now 63, is accused, among other crimes, of overseeing the 1995 massacre of more than 7,000 Muslim men and boys in the besieged enclave of Srebrenica, the largest atrocity in post-World War II Europe.
The regime he led is accused of enacting a policy that came to be known as ethnic cleansing -- driving Muslim civilians from their homes, torching the land, killing and raping those who resisted. An estimated 200,000 people on all sides of the conflict died.
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