War crimes fugitive Karadzic arrested

Bosnian Serb wartime president Radovan Karadzic, charged with genocide for the murder of thousands of Muslims at Srebrenica and other crimes during the Bosnian war, has been arrested after 11 years on the run, Reuters reported.

Serbian government sources said Karadzic was arrested on Monday but had been under surveillance in Serbia for several weeks after a tip-off from a foreign intelligence service.

 

Karadzic was indicted along with his army commander, General Ratko Mladic, for genocide at Srebrenica, where some 8,000 unarmed Bosnian Muslim males were rounded up and murdered and bulldozed into mass graves in July 1995.