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Radovan Karadzic

Radovan Karadžić
Evstafiev-Radovan Karadzic 3MAR94.jpg
Karadžić in March 1994
1st President of Republika Srpska
In office
7 April 1992 – 19 July 1996
Preceded by Position established
Succeeded by Biljana Plavšić
Personal details
Born (1945-06-19) 19 June 1945 (age 71)
Petnjica, Montenegro, DF Yugoslavia
Nationality Serb
Political party Serbian Democratic
Spouse(s) Ljiljana Zelen Karadžić
Children 2
Alma mater University of Sarajevo
Columbia Medical School
Profession Psychiatrist
Religion Serbian Orthodox
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Radovan Karadžić (Serbian Cyrillic: Радован Караџић, pronounced [râdovaːn kârad͡ʒit͡ɕ]; born 19 June 1945) is a Bosnian Serb former politician and convicted war criminal who served as the President of Republika Srpska during the Bosnian War and sought the direct unification of that entity with Serbia.

Educated as a psychiatrist, he co-founded the Serb Democratic Party in Bosnia and Herzegovina and served as the first President of Republika Srpska from 1992 to 1996. He was a fugitive from 1996 until July 2008 after having been indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). The indictment concluded there were reasonable grounds for believing he committed war crimes, including genocide against Bosniak and Croat civilians during the Bosnian War (1992–95). While a fugitive he worked at a private clinic in Belgrade, specialising in alternative medicine and psychology under an alias. His nephew, Dragan Karadžić, has claimed in an interview to the Corriere della Sera that Radovan Karadžić attended Serie A football matches and that he visited Venice using a different alias (Petar Glumac).


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