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Karadzic at the Hague
War crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic was taken into custody by the U.N. war crimes tribunal on Wednesday to face trial at The Hague on charges of genocide for his actions in the 1992-95 Bosnia war.
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The former leader of the Bosnian Serbs, arrested in Serbia last week, was taken to the Scheveningen detention centre near The Hague shortly after landing at Rotterdam airport at dawn. A police helicopter landed but several other unmarked vehicles were also observed entering the facility.
"Radovan Karadzic was today transferred into the Tribunal’s custody, after having been at large for more than 13 years," the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia said in a statement.
Karadzic will be brought before the court for an initial appearance in the coming days, at which he will have an opportunity to plead guilty or not guilty.
Karadzic faces two charges of genocide for the 43-month siege of Sarajevo and the 1995 massacre of some 8,000 Muslims at Srebrenica, the worst atrocity in Europe since World War Two.
Arrested last week after 11 years on the run, Karadzic was most recently living under an assumed name as a bearded, long-haired alternative healer.
Earlier, he was escorted to the airport in Belgrade by masked officials from the Serbian secret service. Security was also tight at the tribunal’s detention facility, with armed guards patrolling the inner walls.
On Tuesday, some 10,000 hard-line nationalists, many brought by bus from rural nationalist strongholds, showed their support for Karadzic in downtown Belgrade, chanting his name and holding up giant banners with his picture.
Clashes broke out when several dozen youths linked to hooligan groups threw flares, stones and garbage cans at riot police. Some 45 people, most of them policemen, were wounded.
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