Radovan Karadzic

Former Bosnian-Serb leader Karadzic declines to enter plea

Former Bosnian-Serb leader Karadzic declines to enter plea Amsterdam - Former Bosnian-Serb president Radovan Karadzic declined Tuesday to enter a plea at the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague.

Karadzic was asked to enter his plea in response to the 11 counts in the revised indictment filed against him. Presiding judge Iain Bonomy ordered that the court record Karadzic pleaded "not guilty".

Bosnia's SDS party says it "never gave up" founder Radovan Karadzic

Bosnia's SDS party says it "never gave up" founder Radovan KaradzicSarajevo - The chairman of Bosnia's nationalist Serbian Democratic Party (SDS) has denied that the party gave up its founder, war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic, according to a report published Thursday.

The former Bosnian Serb leader has been indicted on charges of war crimes, genocide, crimes against humanity and severe breaches of the Geneva Conventions by The Hague-based International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).

Radovan Karadzic 'was protected by the UK

Radovan Karadzic was protected by the UKLondon, Aug. 11 : Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic who has been indicted for genocide and war crimes, was receiving protection from London, a former Hague Tribunal official has claimed.

According to The Telegraph, a former United Nations political affairs officer in Bosnia and a Hague Tribunal investigator, James Luko, told a Belgrade newspaper that General Angus Ramsay, the former commander of British peace­keepers in Bosnia, was ordered by his superiors in London to leave Karadzic alone just minutes before British troops were to capture him in August 1997.

British spies trapped Radovan Karadzic

London, Aug. 7: British secret service agents played a key role in capturing fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, it was revealed yesterday.

According to The Sun, the agents tracked him down in Belgrade after being tipped off to his whereabouts by an informer.

Serb sources claimed a two-and-half million bounty placed on Karadzic’s head had been paid into a secret bank account in the British Virgin Islands by the US anti-terrorist network Reward For Justice.

And a Serb paper quoted a UK diplomatic source saying: “On the day of Karadzic’s arrest, secret service officials told me their informer had been paid and the operation carried out.”

'US tried to assassinate me': Karadzic to UN court

Radovan KaradzicLondon, Aug. 1: Former Bosnian-Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has accused the United States of trying to assassinate him.

Appearing before a UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Karadzic, who is now known to his jailers as prisoner number 38, informed Dutch judge Alphons Orie that Richard Holbrooke, the former United States Assistant Secretary of State, had granted him immunity as part of a wider Bosnia peace deal agreed in 1995.

"My commitment was to withdraw even from literary life and all sorts of public life," he said.

Serb nationalists blame pro-Western president for clashes

Radovan-KaradzicBelgrade  - Serbia's ultranationalist opposition party on Wednesday accused President Boris Tadic and "his regime" of provoking clashes that broke out during a protest over the arrest of war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic.

The Radical Party's claim was in line with a stream of anti-government rhetoric at Tuesday's rally in Belgrade, which the party organized. Hours later, Serbia extradited Karadzic to the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands.

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