Radovan Karadzic

Description

(1945 – ) Signed photograph, 5.25×3.5“ obtained in The Hague 26th November 2012. In good condition, and rare. Karadzic is a former Bosnian Serb politician. During the breakup of Yugoslavia, KaradA?iA? , as President of Republika Srpska sought the direct unification of Republika Srpska into Serbia. He is detained in the United Nations Detention Unit of Scheveningen, accused of war crimes committed against Bosnian Muslims and Bosnian Croats during the Siege of Sarajevo, as well as ordering the Srebrenica massacre. Educated as a psychiatrist, he co-founded the Serbian Democratic Party in Bosnia and Herzegovina and was the first President of Republika Srpska from 1992 to 1996. He was a fugitive from 1996 until July 2008 after having been indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). The indictment concluded there were reasonable grounds for believing he committed war crimes, including genocide against Bosnian Muslim and Bosnian Croat civilians during the Bosnian War (1992a??95). While a fugitive he worked at a private clinic in Belgrade specialising in alternative medicine and psychology under the alias Dr. Dragan David DabiA? (??N? ??N????????? ?????????? ????????N?) under the company name of a??Human Quantum Energya??. His nephew, Dragan KaradA?iA?, has claimed in an interview to the Corriere della Sera that Radovan KaradA?iA? attended football matches of Serie A and that he visited Venice under the false identity of Petar Glumac. He was arrested in Belgrade on 21 July 2008 and brought before Belgradea??s War Crimes Court a few days later. Extradited to the Netherlands, he is in the custody of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.