Who is the “Balkan butcher”, Radovan Karadzic?

Radovan Karadzic received today life sentence for crimes committed during the bloody war in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1992-1995.

Radovan Karadzic sites in the Courim in the Hague holding the answer of his answer at the International Criminal Tribunal for For Former Yugoslavia on Thursday.

He was president of Republika Srpska during that time and sought union with Serbia.

Karadzic was trained as a psychiatrist, and had co-founded the Democratic Party of Serbs in Bosnia and Herzegovina. From 1996 until 2008, he was on the run after being charged with war crimes by the International Court of The Hague. During his fugitive time, he worked at a private clinic in Belgrade, specialising in alternative medicine and psychology under a false name. His nephew, he had said Karadzic even accompanied by the Series A game stadium, and visited Venice under the name of Petar Glomac.

He was arrested in Belgrade on July 21st 2008 and was later extradited to the Netherlands. Often, it is referred to as the “The Bosnian butcher”.

Radovan Karadzic was born on 19 June 1945 in the village of Petnjica near Shavnik in Montenegro. His father was a shoemaker and his mother was a housemaker.

Karadzic had studied neurotic disorders and depression at the Nazived Hospital in Denmark in 1970, and then specialised at the famous Columbia University in New York. He was also the poet, influenced by Serbian writer Dobrica Qosic. During his time as a ecologist, he had declared that “Bolsevism was bad, but even worse nationalism”.

After graduation, Karadzic had worked at a psychiatric clinic at the Sarajevo hospital in Kostunica. According to witnesses, he often issued false medical guidelines for health workers who wanted to retire earlier. He had been convicted of fraud in 1984 by the Yugoslav system and had served his sentence for over a year.

These were the charges Karadzic was charged with and convicted: Genocide, in eight Bosniak municipalities, but which during today's decision was removed.

Genocide in SrebrenicaConfirmed.

PExecution on political, racial and religious grounds, and crimes against humanity in 25 Bosnian municipalities.

DestructionCrime Against Mankind

MurderCrime against humanity.

Murder, Break the Laws or the Conventions of War.

DecorationCrime against humanity.

Unhuman act [strongly moving]Crime against humanity.

Acts of Violence, whose primary goal was to spread terror to civilian populations, violation of international laws or conventions.

Illegal assaults on civiliansLaw breaking or international conventions.

Taking the HostsLaw breaking or international conventions.