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Captured war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic was living in Serbia's capital Belgrade and practising alternative medicine, Serb officials say.
He was working in a private clinic, sporting a long white beard and calling himself Dragan Dabic, said Serbian minister Rasim Ljajic.
The former Bosnian Serb leader was arrested on Monday near Belgrade after more than a decade on the run.
He has been indicted by the UN tribunal for war crimes and genocide.
The UN says Mr Karadzic's forces killed up to 8,000 Bosniak men and boys from Srebrenica in July 1995 as part of a campaign to "terrorise and demoralise the Bosnian Muslim and Bosnian Croat population".
He was also charged over the shelling of Sarajevo, and the use of 284 UN peacekeepers as human shields in May and June 1995. Background to Karadzic's capture |
Serbia has wanted to join the EU for a long time, I've met many serbs in my travels in Eastern Europe and many are desperate to join the EU. However the demand by the EU that Serbia hand over Karadzic and Mladic first has always been the stumbling block.
I don't believe the current pro-Europe government had any part in today's capture of Karadzic but the BBC report of shady backroom deals and money exchanging hands leading to his capture makes me wonder.