Posted on 03/27/2008 7:31:57 AM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
PALE, Bosnia (Reuters) - European Union peacekeepers raided the homes on Thursday of relatives of Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic, a genocide suspect on the run from the U.N. war crimes court.
Some 20 vehicles of the EUFOR peacekeeping force surrounded the house where Karadzic's wife Ljiljana Zelen-Karadzic lives in Pale, his stronghold in the 1992-95 Bosnia war, lying about 16 km (10 miles) southeast of the capital Sarajevo.
Italian carabinieri also searched the homes of Karadzic's daughter Sonja and suspected Karadzic supporter Smiljka Popov in the centre of the mountain town, said EUFOR spokesman Philip Treloar.
"The aim of the operation is to find material and information that could assist the ICTY (International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia) in the search for persons indicted for war crimes," Treloar said.
The houses have been raided dozens of times since Karadzic went on the run at the end of the Bosnia war.
Treloar said the operation finished around noon. "It is believed that these people are associated with Radovan Karadzic's support network. There are items of interest that have been taken and they will be examined," he added.
The U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague has indicted Karadzic and his military leader Ratko Mladic for genocide over the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of 8,000 Muslims and the 43-month siege of Sarajevo that claimed some 11,000 lives.
The court says Mladic is hiding in Serbia. Karadzic is believed to be moving between eastern Bosnia, Serbia and Montenegro.
I sure hope they find this scum.
The EU? Those scum are everywhere.
Them too
Radovan, Is just trying to avoid trial for one reason. He does not want to be killed in prison before his kangaroo court trial is complete like Slobodan or his top Lt.’s were.
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