May 23, 2013
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Radovan Karadžić is a former Bosnian Serb politician. During the breakup of Yugoslavia, Karadžić, as President of the Republika Srpska, sought the direct unification of that entity with Serbia. He is detained in the United Nations Detention Unit of Scheveningen, accused of war crimes committed against Bosnian Muslims and Bosnian Croats during the Siege of Sarajevo, as well as ordering the Srebrenica massacre.
Educated as a psychiatrist, he co-founded the Serbian Democratic Party in Bosnia and Herzegovina and was the first President of Republika Srpska from 1992 to 1996. He was a fugitive from 1996 until July 2008 after having been indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. The indictment concluded there were reasonable grounds for believing he committed war crimes, including genocide against Bosnian Muslim and Bosnian Croat civilians during the Bosnian War. While a fugitive he worked at a private clinic in Belgrade specialising in alternative medicine and psychology under the alias Dr. Dragan David Dabić under the company name of “Human Quantum Energy”. His nephew, Dragan Karadžić, has claimed in an interview to the Corriere della Sera that Radovan Karadžić attended football matches of Serie A and that he visited Venice under the false identity of Petar Glumac.
(via Freebase)
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![Former Bosnian Serb leader denies accusations at war crimes tribunal [Press TV, Iran]](/images/image_cache/base-12348000/12348333/thumbnail.width=304,height=171,grow=1,crop=center.jpg?sig=0d51386d10952c63ee4721b8ec1f337b)
![Bosniaks hold another mass funeral on 17th anniversary of Srebrenica massacre [BBC Arabic, UK]](/images/image_cache/base-6966000/6966818/thumbnail.width=304,height=171,grow=1,crop=center.jpg?sig=e4e0e0e0bd5aec98503e1cce53f39b0b "A Bosnian Muslim man sits and cries near the coffin of his relative at Memorial Center in Potocari before a mass burial, near Srebrenica July 11, 2012: REUTERS/Dado Ruvic")