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Posts from ‘July, 2008’

Pro-Karadzic Meeting Violence

As everyone guessed, violent conflicts between Serbian police and football hooligans, thugs and children with nothing better to do have taken place during the pro Radaovan Karadzic rally in the centre of Belgrade. I’ve just watched a section of those present at the meeting in Republic Square (Trg republike) broke off and began throwing rocks, [...]

Radicals Threatening Serbian President Tadic?

Serbian Radical Party Official Vjerica Radeta has apparently made death threats against Serbian President Boris Tadic. At a press conference on 25 July about the arrest of Hague indictee Radovan Karadzic, Vjerica Radeta said that “betrayal never goes unpunished in Serbia,” and told those present that Boris Tadic and his “regime” may suffer the same [...]

Radovan Karadzic Arrest

Photo by Mikhail Evstafiev
Following yesterday’s post, more details have emerged during the night about the arrest of Radovan Karadzic. Apparently, he was arrested on Monday evening while he was travelling on one of the regular city buses in New Belgrade (Novi Beograd). It’s not known how long he’s been ‘hiding’ in Belgrade, but he had [...]

Radovan Karadzic Arrested

Photo by Mikhail Evstafiev
It seems that Serbian war crimes fugitive Radovan Karadzic was arrested earlier tonight somewhere in Serbia. Didn’t expect that on a mundane Monday night. The new pro-European government was formed very recently, and already we have one of the better known to the rest of the world fugitives arrested. Stojan Zupljanin, another [...]