Karadžić

[ kuh-rah-jich, kahr-uh- ]

noun

1. Ra·do·van [rah, -d, uh, -vahn], born 1945, Bosnian Serb political leader, indicted as a war criminal 1995.

Karadžić

/ ˈkærədzjɪtʃ /

noun

1. KaradžIćRadovan1945MBosnian SerbPOLITICS: political leaderMEDICINE: psychiatrist Radovan (ˈrædəvæn). born 1945, Bosnian Serb political leader during the Bosnian war (1992–95); evaded capture until arrested in 2008; currently being tried on charges of genocide and war crimes by an international criminal tribunal at The Hague

Example Sentences

Slobodan Milošević, the late president of Yugoslavia, was indicted by an international tribunal that addressed the Balkans wars – along with two of his cronies, Ratko Mladić and Radovan Karadžić –- for crimes committed against civilians during the wars in the 1990s.

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They, too, initially evaded jurisdiction - Milošević initially remained in power, while Mladić and Karadžić went into hiding.

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Serbian police arrested Mladić and Karadžić about a decade later.

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Mladić and Karadžić are now serving life sentences.

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I watched fringe politicians in Yugoslavia, Radovan Karadžić, Slobodan Milošević and Franjo Tudjman, dismissed by the political and educated elites as buffoons, ride an anti-liberal wave to power in the wake of widespread economic misery.

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