30.07.2008 | 07:00 UTC
Karadzic in custody of war crimes tribunal in The Hague
Former Bosnian Serb leader and war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic is in the custody of the UN war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague. A UN spokesman confirmed that Karadzic was at the UN detention centre near the court where he will stand trial for genocide. Karadzic has been twice indicted for genocide for the siege of Sarajevo and for the 1995 massacre of some 8,000 Muslims at Srebrenica, the worst atrocity in Europe since World War Two. He was arrested in the Serbian capital Belgrade last week after 13 years on the run. On Tuesday, Serbian riot police clashed with several hundred Karadzic supporters in Belgrade on the sidelines of a rally of 15,000 Serb nationalists who were demonstrating against his planned extradition.
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