On July 18, 2008, Serbian security forces arrested Radovan Karadzic, who had successfully evaded capture for over a decade since the end of the war in Bosnia in 1995. Karadzic, a Serbian ultra-nationalist, is now imprisoned in the Hague and will go on trial for--among other charges--two counts of genocide. He is best known for commanding Bosnian Serb forces, orchestrating the siege of Sarajevo and ordering the Srebrenica massacre (1995). Just today, United Nations war crimes judges in the Hague [ICTY] rejected a request from Stojan Zupljanin to combine his own trial with that of Karadzic. Karadzic himself continues to claim that United States officials offered him immunity in 1996, a claim that former peace envoy Richard Holbrooke denies. UN judges have ignored Karadzic's claims, asserting that they are "invalid under international law".
The following is an AP report on the arrest and extradition of Karadzic to the Netherlands in July:
Compare the first account to the story as Al Jazeera covered it:
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