BELGRADE, Serbia, July 22, 2008
War Crimes Suspect Hid In Plain Sight
Former Bosnian Serb Leader Disguised Himself To Elude Capture For More Than A Decade
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Play CBS Video Video Radovan Karadzic Found Bosnian-Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has been discovered in Belgrade. CBS News Foreign Affairs Analyst Pam Falk discusses the implications.
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This two picture combination shows: on the left, Bosnian Serb Leader Radovan Karadzic in April 1996 during a Bosnian Serb assembly session and on the right, Karadzic in an undated photo at an undisclosed location in Belgrade with glasses, long white hair and a beard. (AP PHOTO)
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Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, indicted war criminal, in an undated photo (AP)
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Prosecutors said Karadzic was arrested while apparently waiting for a public bus in a grim new part of Belgrade known as a nationalist stronghold. Authorities refused to reveal more details of his arrest, saying Karadzic's movements are being analyzed and will be kept secret until Mladic's capture.
"We are absolutely determined to finish this job," said Ljajic.
Karadzic's lawyer Sveta Vujcic claimed his client was arrested Friday, not on Monday as authorities say. He said Karadzic was hooded during the capture and kept for three days in solitary confinement.
A judge ordered Karadzic's transfer to the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, to face genocide charges, war crimes prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic said. Karadzic has three days to appeal the ruling.
Karadzic's family in Bosnia, banned from leaving the country over suspicions that they helped him elude capture, asked Tuesday to have the restrictions lifted, his daughter told The Associated Press.
Sonja Karadzic said family members want to spend at least a few hours with Karadzic before his transfer to U.N. custody.
"We even suggested traveling under police escort to see him for at least for a few hours," she said by telephone. "For years we have not seen our father, husband and grandfather; my mother's health is not very good, and we do not have the financial means necessary to travel to Netherlands."
During the siege of Sarajevo that began in 1992, Bosnian Serb troops starved, sniped and bombarded the city center, operating from strongholds in Pale and Vraca high above the city and controlling nearly all roads in and out.
Inhabitants were kept alive by a thin lifeline of food aid and supplies provided by U.N. donors and peacekeepers. Walking down the street to shop for groceries or driving down a main road that became known as "Sniper Alley" was a risk to their lives.
The siege was not officially over until February 1996. An estimated 10,000 people died.
The worst massacre of Bosnia's war was in Srebrenica in 1995, when Serb troops led by Mladic overran the U.N.-protected enclave sheltering Bosnian Muslims. Mladic's troops rounded up the entire population and took the men away for execution.
By war's end in late 1995, an estimated 250,000 people were dead and another 1.8 million driven from their homes.
Under the U.N. indictment, Karadzic faces 11 counts of genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and other atrocities committed between 1992 to 1996.
In Sarajevo, Bosnian Muslims rushed into the streets Monday night to celebrate the news of Karadzic's arrest.
"We have been waiting for 13 years and we lost hope. Now we know - there is justice," said Kada Hotic, a survivor of Srebrenica massacre.
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Posted by IOWEIGN at 03:52 PM : Jul 23, 2008
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what about it?? the DNC has so many ''allegations'' enough to disband the whole republican party..BUT THEY CANT...because you cannot impeach, convict or even bring charges when the body of your evidence was fabricated by the liberal media..
THAT OR THE DNC ARE JUST A BUNCH OF USELESS AND WEAKMINDED CHILDREN INCAPABLE OF FINISHING ANYTHING.
Posted by bluestardad at 04:22 AM : Jul 23, 2008
When will someone provide some proof that there ever were any? Seems like the investigation and impeachment process was hidden in committee two years ago when we sent a democratic majority to congress.
Posted by RowdyWicca at 08:10 AM : Jul 23, 2008
Just look at Iraq...
Posted by RowdyWicca at 08:10 AM : Jul 23, 2008
In a speech on the House floor on April 15, 1970, Ford asked the question: "What, then, is an impeachable offense?" His response: "The only honest answer is that an impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers to be at a given moment in history; conviction results from whatever offense or offenses two-thirds of the other body [the Senate] considers to be sufficiently serious to require removal of the accused from office."
Where is censorship from the CBS online mediator when we need it?
Answer: When hell freezes over. We can''t even get these guys impeached.
How about torture, internationally recognized as a war crime. (but of course you would then say that Bush did not cause the tortures at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, I already know you will try that lie.)
How about the invasion and occupation of a sovereign state that was no threat to the US? That is also recognized internationally as a violation of the Geneva Convention, to which the US is also a signatory, making it a war crime.
Bush is personally responsible for the deaths of over a million people who were no threat to us, if you don''t recognize that as a serious war crime of mass murder, then you are either being paid to post lunacy, or you have a mental defect that precludes your seeing the wrong.
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Posted by bluestardad at 04:22 AM : Jul 23, 2008
When will someone provide some proof that there ever were any? Seems like the investigation and impeachment process was hidden in committee two years ago when we sent a democratic majority to congress.
Mike Wallace interviewed him for 60 Minutes soon after he went into hiding.
- by trishab4 July 22, 2008 9:15 PM EDT
- -The professionally-trained psychiatrist was almost certainly protected by a coterie of hardline ultranationalists as he worked incognito at an alternative medicine clinic in Belgrade.
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See all 13 Comments-The trained psychiatrist was sick-minded... let him rot into a well deserved jail term! Or why not hang him up... and you GOPs may be happy now; here''s one for you!