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07-22-2008, 06:19 PM
CNN) -- Former Bosnian Serb president Radovan Karadzic, the man accused of masterminding the massacre of tens of thousands of Bosnian Muslims and Croats during the brutal Balkans conflict, has been arrested after more than 10 years on the run.
Karadzic, accused of ordering the deadly siege of Sarajevo and some of the worst atrocities in Europe since World War II -- including the 1995 massacre of 8,000 Muslims in Srebrenica -- was arrested by Serb authorities Friday on a bus in the Serbian capital Belgrade, his lawyer said.
The capture of the so-called "Butcher of Bosnia" was hailed as a landmark for international justice and for Serbia, whose new government has pledged to bring its wanted war criminals to justice as a condition of membership of the European Union.
"Karadzic's arrest drew jubilation in the streets of Sarajevo, the Bosnian capital, which Bosnian Serb forces had shelled heavily during the war, and a small protest from ultra Serb nationalists in front of Belgrade's heavily guarded war crimes
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/07/22/serb.arrest0525/index.html
Karadzic, accused of ordering the deadly siege of Sarajevo and some of the worst atrocities in Europe since World War II -- including the 1995 massacre of 8,000 Muslims in Srebrenica -- was arrested by Serb authorities Friday on a bus in the Serbian capital Belgrade, his lawyer said.
The capture of the so-called "Butcher of Bosnia" was hailed as a landmark for international justice and for Serbia, whose new government has pledged to bring its wanted war criminals to justice as a condition of membership of the European Union.
"Karadzic's arrest drew jubilation in the streets of Sarajevo, the Bosnian capital, which Bosnian Serb forces had shelled heavily during the war, and a small protest from ultra Serb nationalists in front of Belgrade's heavily guarded war crimes
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/07/22/serb.arrest0525/index.html