Mastermind of Bosnian Muslims’ murder Karadzic arrested Updated at: 0230 PST, Tuesday, July 22, 2008
BELGRADE: Radovan Karadzic, the mastermind of Bosnian Muslims’ killing, was arrested in Serbia on Monday. He is seen widely as a murderous megalomaniac with a twisted view of history and his supposed destiny as a leader of the Bosnian Serbs.
Karadzic was involved in the killing of thousands of Muslims and was abducted for the last 13 years on the run from the UN war crimes tribunal.
According to a statement issued from the office of Serbian President Boris Tadic, Serbian security officers arrested Radovan Karadzic, who was brought to the investigative judge of the War Crimes Court in Belgrade.
Along with his former military commander Ratko Mladic, Karadzic had evaded the ICTY since 1995 when they were charged with war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity during Bosnia’s 1992-1995 war. Mladic is still at large.
The Bosnian Croats and Muslims, against whom Karadzic, 63, waged a barbaric ampaign of “ethnic cleansing” in the early 1990s, have no doubt that he is one of the monsters of the 20th century.
The worst crimes on his indictment are the 43-month siege of Sarajevo in which some 10,000 civilians were killed, and the massacre of 8,000 Muslims in the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica in July 1995.
