Karadzic: Psychiatrist-turned 'Butcher of Bosnia'


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http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/07/22/karadzic.profile/

updated 7:27 a.m. EDT, Tue July 22, 2008


Karadzic: Psychiatrist-turned 'Butcher of Bosnia' Story Highlights

Karadzic was a psychiatrist who came to be nicknamed the "Butcher of
Bosnia"

He was the Bosnian Serb political leader during the 1992-1995 war

Troops under his leadership are reported to have massacred 100,000
people

He was indicted by the U.N. tribunal for war crimes and genocide


(CNN) -- Radovan Karadzic, whose Interpol charges listed "flamboyant
behavior" as a distinguishing characteristic, was a practicing
psychiatrist who came to be nicknamed the "Butcher of Bosnia."

Twice indicted in 1995 by the U.N. International Criminal Tribunal for
the former Yugoslavia, Karadzic faces charges of genocide, complicity
in genocide, extermination, murder, willful killing, persecutions,
deportation, inhumane acts, terror against civilians and hostage-
taking.

While president of the so-called Serbian Republic of Bosnia-
Herzegovina, Karadzic's troops were reported to have massacred over
hundreds of thousands of Muslims and Croats during a campaign of
"ethnic cleansing." Early estimates of the death toll from the 3-year
war ranged up to 300,000, but recent research reduced that to about
100,000.

The U.S. State Department had a $5 million reward for information
leading to his capture. His arrest brings an end to more than 10 years
as a fugitive.
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