CAPTURED WAR crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb leader, is due to appeal against his transfer to the UN war crimes court at the Hague.
Radovan Karadzic, who is 63 and was arrested on Monday, is wanted on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity including 11 counts of genocide, the shelling of Sarajevo during the city’s siege, in which some 12,000 civilians died and allegedly organising the massacre of up to 8,000 Bosniak men and youths in Srebrenica.
He also stands accused of targeting Bosniak and Croat political leaders, intellectuals and professionals as well as unlawfully deporting and transferred civilians because of national or religious identity, destroying homes, businesses and sacred sites.
Following Radovan Karadzic’s arrest, Serbian minister, Rasim Ljajic said that he had lived in a very convincing way, using false papers and growing a long white beard.
The war crimes suspect even gave public lectures and was a regular health magazine contributor, having reinvented himself as Dragan Dabic, a devotee of alternative medicine.
The Serbian Foreign Minister, Vuk Jeremic, said the arrest of Radovan Karadzic showed his country was firmly committed to European Union membership, as this was one of the main conditions for the country’s progress towards joining.
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