Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan
Karadzic (C) attends a party in Novi Banovci near Belgrade in this image
taken from a June 22, 2008 video footage.
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BRUSSELS, July 30 (Xinhua) -- The plane carrying
former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, who was being extradited to the UN
war crimes tribunal in The Hague, arrived in Rotterdam on Wednesday, said the UN
tribunal on Wednesday.
Karadzic, who was arrested last week in Belgrade, Serbia, has been admitted in the Scheveningen detention center near The Hague, said the tribunal in a statement.
A helicopter carrying Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic lands at the UN detention centre in The Hague July 30, 2008. (Xinhua/Reuters, File Photo) Photo Gallery>>>
The tribunal said a date and time for Karadzic's
initial appearance in court will be announced "in due course." But it is
generally believed to be in the coming days.
Karadzic faces 11 charges including genocide for his
role in the 1992-1995 Bosnia War. He was accused of genocide for the murder of
more than 7,000 Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica in 1995. He was also held
responsible for the protracted siege of the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo, during
which thousands of civilians were killed and wounded.
The 63-year-old Karadzic, seen as a hero by Serb
nationalists in Bosnia and Serbia, had been kept in a Belgrade prison while his
legal team had been fighting a legal battle against his transfer to the
International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY).
A spokeswoman for the Belgrade District Court, where
Karadzic was held since his arrest July 21, said on Tuesday the court received
no appeal against his extradition by the end of office hours on Tuesday.
A plane carrying Karadzic landed at Rotterdam airport
on Wednesday morning.
BELGRADE, July 30 (Xinhua) -- Former Bosnian Serb leader
Radovan Karadzic was being extradited to the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The
Hague, the Serbian official news agency Tanjug reported early on Wednesday.
A motorcade of four jeeps with tinted windows was
seen leaving the downtown Belgrade District Court at about 3:45 a.m. (0145
GMT)early Wednesday where Karadzic was held since his arrest July 21, said the
reports, adding that Karadzic was taken from detention to the Belgrade airport
to board a plane for the Netherlands. Full story
A combination photo shows Bosnian Serb
wartime leader and indicted war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic (L) in an
undated recent file photo and (R) attending a parliamentary session in the
Republik of Srpska in Bosanski Samac February 13, 1995. (Xinhua/Reuters
Photo) Photo
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BELGRADE, July 29 (Xinhua) -- Serbia's Belgrade District Court received no
appeal against the extradition of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic to
the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague by the end of office hours on Tuesday, a
court spokeswoman said.
"Considering the fact that an appeal did not arrive, the
court didn't make any decision," the court's spokeswoman Ivana Ramic told
reporters in Belgrade.
BEIJING, July 22 (Xinhua) -- World opinion mixed on
Tuesday after the arrest of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic.
The Russian foreign ministry on Tuesday said that the
arrest of Karadzic was "an internal matter" for Serbia, and the trial of
Karadzic should be "impartial," accusing the UN war crimes tribunal of "an often
biased approach."
BELGRADE, July 22 (Xinhua) -- Skirmishes broke out Tuesday
afternoon between the police and protesters against the arrest of the former
Bosnia Serb leader Radovan Karadzic in the capital Belgrade.
Protesters who gathered in downtown Belgrade chanted
Karadzic's name and threw firecrackers and chairs at the police and started
smashing nearby cafes, local media reported.
BRUSSELS, July 22 (Xinhua) -- EU foreign ministers said
here on Tuesday that the arrest of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic
was "a significant step on Serbia's path towards the EU."
"This development illustrates the commitment of the new
government in Belgrade to contribute to peace and stability in the Balkans
regions," the ministers said in a conclusion of their meeting. Full story
