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BANJA LUKA, Bosnia - NATO peacekeepers said on Thursday they had detained fugitive former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic's wartime defense minister for his alleged support of Serb war crimes suspects. General Bogdan Subotic, defense minister during the 1992-95 Bosnian war and now a military adviser to the Bosnian Serb presidency, was detained on Wednesday night at his home in Banja Luka, the NATO-led Stabilization Force (SFOR) said in a statement. It was the peace force's third arrest operation in two months targeting the support network of persons indicted by the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague. Subotic is...

Albania's opposition leaders have called for a mass demonstration this weekend in a bid to oust a government they contend is corrupt and not doing enough to lift living standards in one of Europe's poorest countries. Former President Sali Berisha's Democratic Party and nine other opposition groups have joined forces ahead of Saturday's protest, an effort to force the resignation of Prime Minister Fatos Nano and his Socialist-led government.

Ex-Bosnian Serb leader and indicted war criminal Radovan Karadzic is living in Belgrade, according to chief United Nations prosecutor Carla Del Ponte. Ms Del Ponte said she had received information from a credible source in the Serb capital last week. She described Belgrade as "a haven for fugitives", adding that her office's relations with Serbia had been frozen. Mr Karadzic, charged with genocide for his part in the Bosnian war, remains free eight years after the war ended. Ms Del Ponte said he had apparently joined his former army chief Ratko Mladic in the Serbian capital. "So we have...

Gone, but not quite forgotten Celebici is a remote gnat of a place. A few dozen houses and a church surrounded by forest in the Bosnian hills. But it was as big as the headlines it generated when NATO-led forces staged Operation Daybreak there in February 2002, ostensibly hoping to net Radovan Karadzic - the still-at-large Bosnian Serb leader indicted by The Hague's war crimes tribunal for helping lead a genocide in 1992-95 that killed up to 200,000 people, mostly Bosnian Muslims. Helicopters disgorged black-masked troops, who kicked in doors and blew open locks as they conducted house-to-house searches, but...

(CNN) --NATO-led peacekeepers captured the former bodyguard to Radovan Karadzic, the ex-Bosnian Serb leader wanted by a U.N. war crimes tribunal for a 1995 massacre of 8,000 men and boys. Wednesday's capture marks the second time in recent weeks that a person close to Karadzic has been captured. Zeljko Jankovic, known as Luna, was snatched off the street in a dramatic morning raid as he walked his daughter to school in the city of Bijeljina, according to local media reports. The reports said three masked members of NATO's Stabilization Force jumped from a van, grabbed Jankovic and whisked him away....

26 Jan 2004 14:24:55 GMT West lacks will ever to catch Karadzic-UN prosecutor By Nedim Dervisbegovic SARAJEVO, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Top Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic is unlikely ever to be arrested as the West lacks the political will to do it, the U.N.'s deputy prosecutor at The Hague was quoted as saying on Monday. "Nothing happens that would give me a reason to believe he will be arrested," deputy prosecutor Graham Blewitt said in the most critical comments yet of the West from a member of the war crimes tribunal. "We at the tribunal have been...

Karadzic posters appear AP Wednesday January 28, 2004 The Guardian Posters with the image of Radovan Karadzic, Bosnia's most wanted war crimes suspect, appeared yesterday in Banja Luka, urging Bosnian Serbs not to give up his legacy. The posters displayed a colour photograph of Mr Karadzic with a text below saying: "I'm always with you," and "I'm watching you." Mr Karadzic, who led the Bosnian Serbs during the civil war of 1992-95, was indicted in 1995 by the UN war crimes tribunal for genocide and war crimes, including the killing of up to 8,000 Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica....

Karadzic, possibly injured, slips NATO net NATO forces scour fugitive's old headquarters town Updated: 2:08 p.m. ET Jan. 11, 2004PALE, Bosnia - NATO troops on Sunday scaled down a major weekend hunt for top Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic, triggered by a tip that injury may have forced him to seek help in his old headquarters town. If Karadzic had indeed been there, he appeared to have once again slipped the net. By nightfall, only an ex-paramilitary policeman said to be “a supporter” had been detained, outside a nearby ski-resort hotel. “They have been looking for my husband...

The war crimes tribunal in The Hague has heard allegations that former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic ordered the 1995 Srebrenica massacre. A former Bosnian Serb politician, Miroslav Deronjic, said Mr Karadzic told him days before the massacre that all local Muslims needed to be killed. Mr Deronjic was testifying at a pre-appeal hearing for General Radislav Krstic, who was partly responsible. The tribunal has charged Mr Karadzic with genocide over Srebrenica. Mr Deronjic confessed to war crimes. He was a civilian head of the Bratunac municipality near Srebrenica when the Bosnian Serb's political leader Mr Karadzic told him on...

World - AP Europe Bosnian Serbs Struggle in Peacetime Sat Oct 5, 2:42 PM ET By KATARINA KRATOVAC, Associated Press Writer PALE, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) - In this mountain hamlet from where Radovan Karadzic once waged war, Bosnian Serbs are struggling to deal with the aftermath of peace. AP Photo The Serbs of Pale were throwing their support to nationalists like those of their former leader's party in Bosnian elections Saturday. But mired in poverty and stymied by a lack of opportunity, they were paying only lip service to the nationalist ideology. What they talked about instead was finding jobs, putting...

Nato-led peacekeeping troops have raided the family home of Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic. A guard at the house in Pale, within the Bosnian Serb territory, told Reuters news agency that French troops from the Stabilisation Force (S-For) told him they were looking for weapons. Mr Karadzic's wife arrived at the house an hour after the pre-dawn raid to inspect the damage, the news agency reported. Nato troops have been searching for the former Bosnian Serb president - the UN war crimes tribunal's most wanted suspect - for several years. Mr Karadzic's family said nobody had been arrested...

Police raid monastery in search for Karadzic March 24 2002 Police in Montenegro raided a monastery where they suspected war crimes fugitive Radovan Karadzic might be hiding, but failed to find him, a newspaper reported yesterday. Nezavisne Novine, quoting an anonymous source, said the raid a few days ago followed US intelligence reports of unusual activity at the Ostrog monastery. Karadzic, who was Bosnian Serb leader during the 1992-95 Bosnian war, has been indicted by the UN war crimes tribunal for genocide and war crimes committed during the conflict. Early this month, troops of the NATO-led Stabilisation Force (SFOR) carried...