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Serbia holds Croatia war crimes suspect Goran Hadzic | Serbia holds Croatia war crimes suspect Goran Hadzic |
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Serbian authorities say they have arrested Goran Hadzic, the last remaining fugitive sought by the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague. | Serbian authorities say they have arrested Goran Hadzic, the last remaining fugitive sought by the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague. |
Mr Hadzic is wanted for atrocities committed in the 1991-1995 war in Croatia. He led Croatian Serb separatist forces. | Mr Hadzic is wanted for atrocities committed in the 1991-1995 war in Croatia. He led Croatian Serb separatist forces. |
The arrest comes less than two months after Serbia caught former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic. | The arrest comes less than two months after Serbia caught former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic. |
Mr Hadzic is charged with the murder of hundreds of Croatians and non-Serbs. | Mr Hadzic is charged with the murder of hundreds of Croatians and non-Serbs. |
Serbian President Boris Tadic confirmed the arrest at a news conference, which is currently under way. | |
Serbian officials say he was detained on Wednesday at Fruska Gora mountain, north of Belgrade, near his family home. He had always been presumed to be hiding there, the BBC's Mark Lowen reports from Belgrade. | Serbian officials say he was detained on Wednesday at Fruska Gora mountain, north of Belgrade, near his family home. He had always been presumed to be hiding there, the BBC's Mark Lowen reports from Belgrade. |
Mr Hadzic went into hiding seven years ago, shortly after the sealed indictment against him was delivered to the government in Belgrade. | Mr Hadzic went into hiding seven years ago, shortly after the sealed indictment against him was delivered to the government in Belgrade. |
Wartime atrocities | Wartime atrocities |
He was a central figure in the self-proclaimed Serb republic of Krajina in 1992-1993, leading the campaign to block Croatia's independence from Yugoslavia. | |
Mr Hadzic, href="http://www.icty.org/x/cases/hadzic/ind/en/had-ii040716e.htm" title="Goran Hadzic indictment in full" >indicted in 2004, faces 14 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity, including persecution, extermination, torture, deportation and wanton destruction for his involvement in atrocities committed by Serb troops in Croatia. | |
He is held responsible for the massacre of almost 300 men in Vukovar in 1991 by Croatian Serb troops and for the deportation of 20,000 people from the town after it was captured. | He is held responsible for the massacre of almost 300 men in Vukovar in 1991 by Croatian Serb troops and for the deportation of 20,000 people from the town after it was captured. |
Our correspondent says the Hadzic case was seen as the last big obstacle to Serbia gaining EU candidate status and a start date for accession talks. There was a $1.4m (£870,000) bounty out for his capture. | Our correspondent says the Hadzic case was seen as the last big obstacle to Serbia gaining EU candidate status and a start date for accession talks. There was a $1.4m (£870,000) bounty out for his capture. |
He lived openly in the northern Serbian city of Novi Sad untily 13 July 2004, when he fled because of the indictment against him, Reuters news agency reports. | |
For years the prosecutors in The Hague complained that Belgrade was not doing enough to track down top war crimes suspects including Mr Hadzic, and that criticism delayed progress in Serbia's EU bid. | |
Mr Hadzic was born in 1958 in Pacetin, near Vinkovici, in Croatia. He became a political activist in the 1990s when he joined the Serb Democratic Party (SDS), and later headed the separatist Serb government in Slavonia, Baranja and Western Srem. | |
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