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Karadzic hides in Belgrade with false identity
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-07-23 00:36 "There was international pressure to arrest Mladic, not many people expected Karadzic's arrest. But operative knowledge led to his location and arrest," Ljajic said.
Ljajic and Vukcevic declined to reveal details of the arrest, saying a reconstruction of the suspect's movement was still ongoing which could be of help in the hunt for the remaining fugitives. Karadzic was questioned by the investigative judge at Belgrade District Court earlier in the day, but he was silent for the most part, and he had been handed his Tribunal indictment. Vukcevic said Karadzic will be extradited to the Hague Tribunal. Karadzic has been on the run since July 1995 when he was indicted, together with his military commander Ratko Mladic, by The Hague-based International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes during the 1992-1995 Bosnian War. His arrest is believed to be a clear sign of Serbia's newly formed pro-Western government to establish closer ties with the European Union, which has set full cooperation with the ICTY by arresting all the remaining top war crimes suspects as a condition for applying the pre-membership Stabilization and Association Agreement. |
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