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Radovan Karadžić is a Bosnian Serb former politician who served as the president of Republika Srpska during the Bosnian War. He was convicted of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).
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politics · Bosnian Serb politician and war criminal (born 1945) · politician · poet · psychiatrist · also Radovan Karadžić, Dragan David Dabić, Karadzic Radovan, D3, Petar Glumac, Radovan V. Karadžić
Born 19 June 1945 · Q123923
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The New York Times: Radovan Karadzic
balkaninsight: Radovan Karadzic’s Attempt to Remove ‘Biased’ Judges Rejected
SBS: Radovan Karadžić sentenced to life in prison
The Daily Beast: Radovan Karadžić Sentenced to Life in Prison for Bosnian War Crimes
An appeal he had filed against his conviction was rejected, and the sentence was increased to life imprisonment
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VICE: Right-Wing Serbians Protested Convicted Genocidist Radovan Karadžić’s Prison Sentence
International Business Times: Radovan Karadzic Trial Update: Former Bosnian Serb Leader Found Guilty Of Genocide At Srebrenica In 1995
Was found guilty of the genocide in Srebrenica, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, 10 of the 11 charges in total, and sentenced to 40 years' imprisonment
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The Norman Transcript: Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadžić boycotts genocide trial
Christian Science Monitor: Radovan Karadzic on trial for Bosnian War Crimes
Global Voices Online: Radovan Karadžić's Arrest 2008
Global Voices Online: The Balkans, Russia: Radovan Karadžić
B92: Radovan Karadžić arrested
And brought before Belgrade's War Crimes Court a few days later
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Career landmark: arrest.
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Near Foča: "38 km (24 miles) down the road, on the edge of the Sutjeska National Park, Radovan Karadžić has just got out of a red Mercedes" and asserted that "Western intelligence agencies knew roughly where they were, b
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Bosnian Serb leaders called on Karadžić to surrender, stating that Bosnia and Serbia could not move ahead economically or politically while he remained at large
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Hundreds of supporters demonstrated in support of Karadžić in his home town
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When he was an invitee of the United Nations
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Directing Bosnian Serb forces to "create an unbearable situation of total insecurity with no hope of further survival of life" in the UN safe area
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The Greek Orthodox Church declared Karadžić "one of the most prominent sons of our Lord Jesus Christ working for peace", and decorated him with the nine-hundred-year-old Knights' Order of the First Rank of Saint Dionysiu
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For meetings with Russian officials on the Bosnian situation
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Was handed a service of process for a civil claim under the United States of America's Alien Tort Act
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Career landmark: President of Republika Srpska (1992–1996).
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Karadžić started working at a hospital in the Belgrade suburb of Voždovac
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And during 1974 and 1975 he underwent further medical training at Columbia University in New York
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To study psychiatry at the Sarajevo University School of Medicine
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Born 1945-06-19.
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