Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Radovan Karadzic transferred to The Hague
By Reed Stevenson
THE HAGUE (Reuters) - War crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic arrived in the Netherlands this night to face trial at The Hague on charges of genocide for his actions in the 1992-95 Bosnia war.
The former leader of the Bosnian Serbs is expected to be held at a nearby detention centre and then appear at the U.N. war crimes tribunal soon afterwards.
The plane carrying Karadzic landed at Rotterdam airport.
Karadzic faces two charges of genocide for the 43-month siege of Sarajevo and the 1995 massacre of some 8,000 Muslims at Srebrenica, the worst atrocity in Europe since World War Two.
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