22 Jul 2008

Serbia captures fugitive Karadzic

10:01 am on 22 July 2008

One of the world's most wanted men, Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic, has been arrested in Serbia after more than a decade.

The office of Serbian President Boris Tadic says he was brought before Belgrade's war crimes court, in accordance with a law on cooperation the Hague Tribunal.

The Bosnian Serb wartime political leader disappeared in 1996. He was indicted by the UN tribunal for war crimes and genocide over a massacre at Srebrenica in 1995.

His wartime military leader, Ratko Mladic, remains at large.