Radovan Karadžić

Bosnian Serb politician, psychiatrist and poet convicted of genocide

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    Born 1945
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    The Death of Yugoslavia
    1995
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A trained psychiatrist who led Republika Srpska through the Bosnian War and was later convicted of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. He spent twelve years as a fugitive working under an alias at a Belgrade alternative medicine clinic before his 2008 arrest.

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Born 19 June 1945, Radovan Karadžić co-founded the Serb Democratic Party in Bosnia and Herzegovina and became the first president of Republika Srpska in 1992. During the Bosnian War (1992–1995), he presided over operations that led to his 1996 indictment for war crimes, including genocide against Bosniak and Croat civilians. He vanished that year and worked at a private clinic in Belgrade specializing in alternative medicine and psychology under an assumed identity. Arrested in Belgrade in July 2008, he was extradited to the Netherlands and charged with 11 counts before the ICTY. In 2016, he w…

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Radovan Karadžić
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There is no doubt that the United States and Germany had their own interests in igniting wars in Croatia, Slovenia and Bosnia.
Radovan Karadžić speaking in May 2011 during a magazine interview given from Scheveningen Prison, The Hague. — "Radovan Karadzic: The other
Radovan Karadžić
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This, what you are doing, is not good. This is the path that you want to take Bosnia and Herzegovina on, the same highway of hell and death that Slovenia and Croatia went on.
Radovan Karadžić speaking at the Bosnian parliament, on the night of 14–15 October 1991, in a charged atmosphere in a debate whether to
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