Is that what they are doing? Trying to hold his son hostage so he will
susposedly give himself up?
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NATO peacekeepers arrest son of Radovan Karadzic - confirmation
Jul 7, 2005, 9:43 GMT
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Sarajevo/Brussels - NATO confirmed on Thursday that its peacekeepers in
Bosnia arrested the son of indicted Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect
Radovan Karadzic.
"He is in a safe place," a spokesman said in Brussels. Sasa Karadzic,
32, was held under suspicion that he was supporting his fugitive
father.
Witnesses said U.S. troops serving with the NATO peacekeeping mission
entered the home of Sasa Karadzic, 32, in Pale, handcuffed him and put
a flak-jacket on him before whisking him off by helicopter.
Several military vehicles and two helicopters were engaged in the
operation.
Pale, a former ski-resort in the mountains above Sarajevo in central
Bosnia, was the seat of Radovan Karadzic's government during the
1992-95 Bosnian war.
A NATO spokesman, Derek Chappell, confirmed that an operation was
ongoing, but refused to provide any details.
The homes of the Karadzic family - his wife Ljiljana, daughter Sonja
and Sasa - were searched in May in Pale. Documents and other items were
taken from them on that occasion.
As president of the self-proclaimed Bosnian Serb republic-1995 war,
Radovan Karadzic, now 60, was accused by The Hague-based United Nations
war crimes tribunal of genocide and other war crimes targeting the
Moslem population.
He has remained at large despite a massive international presence in
Bosnia since 1996. He is presumed to be hiding in the Bosnian, possibly
also Montenegrin mountains with the help of an underground network.
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