30.7.2008
By Leel Pathirana
After
spending 13 years as a fugitive following his arrest on
21st July last week Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan
Karadzic was brought to Hague today 30th (Wednesday) to
face the charges for the said war crimes including genocide
against Bosnian Muslim and Bosnian Croat during the Bosnian
War 1992 to 995 as president of the Bosnian Serb republic.Radovan
Karadzic was brought to Hague today 30th (Wednesday) to
face charges of war crimes.
Mr.
Karadzic was escorted by masked Serbian security officers
and taken from the Belgrade war crimes court yesterday
a motorcade carrying Mr. Karadzic to the airport left
hours after stone-hurling nationalists clashed with the
police in central Belgrade at a rally to protest his arrest
last week on war crimes charges.
Mr.
Karadzic was born on born 19th June 1945 in Petnjica,
Montenegro and was a poet and psychiatrist specialized
in neurotic disorders. Later he involved in Politics by
the influence of the Serbian writer Dobrica ?osi?,
While
a fugitive he worked at a private clinic in Belgrade specializing
in alternative medicine and psychology under the alias
Dr. Dragan David Dabi? last year he moved to Vienna, Austria
under the name Petar Glumac posing as the Croatian seller
of herbal solutions and ointments and lived there for
sometime and he succeeded evading his capture in May 2007
by the Austrian Police.
They
talked to him during the raid regarding unrelated homicide
case in the area where Karadži? lived but failed
to recognize his real identity. He had a Croatian passport
under the name Petar Glumac and claimed to be in Vienna
for training. Police did not ask any further questions
nor demanded to fingerprint him as he appeared calm and
readily answered questions. Nevertheless, this claim has
come into doubt since a man named Petar Glumac, an alternative
medical practitioner from Novo Selo, Serbia, claims to
have been the real person arrested in Vienna.
He
is the highest-level politician from the former Yugoslavia
to be transferred to the court since Slobodan Milosevic,
the former Serbian president, who was arrested in 2001
and died 2006 in his cell at Hague after giving him strong
Medicine for his illness as a part of international conspiracy
to end his life. Week before his death, he wrote a letter
to the Russian President Vladimir Putin from his prison
cell stating that he has been prescribed strong medicine
by the prison health authorities to end his life.
Mr.
Karadzic’s supporters said they were incensed by
the recent release of high-profile suspects accused of
war crimes against Serbs, including Naser Oric, a Bosnian
Muslim, and Ramush Haradinaj, an ethnic-Albanian former
commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army.
Mr.
Karadzic said on February 1996, "If The Hague was
a real juridical body I would be ready to go there to
testify or do so on television, but it is a political
body that has been created to blame the Serbs."
Courtesy - Asian
Tribune