The decision was made on Tuesday, based on the Agreement that the UN and the Government of Great Britain signed with the Hague Tribunal in 2004.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Great Britain, Dominique Rabb, stated that Britain accepted that Karadzic, who was sentenced to life imprisonment before the International Mechanism for Criminal Courts in 2019, is serving a prison sentence in that country, Reuters reports.
“Radovan Karadzic is one of the few people found guilty of genocide. He is responsible for the massacre of men, women and children in the genocide in Srebrenica and helped in the siege of Sarajevo, which was an attack on civilians. We should be proud of the fact that “Britain has been involved in the search for justice for the past 30 years, from securing his arrest to going to his cell,” Rab said.
The Hague tribunal indicted Radovan Karadzic in 1995 he was arrested and handed over to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in July 2008. Following the verdict, he was held in a detention center in The Hague.
Karadzic is in 2016 sentenced to 40 years in prison after being found guilty of most counts of war crimes in BiH, including the Srebrenica genocide.
Biography of Radovan Karadzic
Radovan Karadzic was born on June 19, 1945, in the Durmitor village of Petnica, near Niksic.
At the age of 15, he moved to Sarajevo, where he finished medical school, and after that the medical faculty (he specialized in neuropsychiatry). He also spent part of his schooling in the United States. He worked at a hospital in Sarajevo as a psychiatrist (depression expert).
He began to deal with politics intensively in 1989, when he was elected president of the SDS. He was elected President of the Republika Srpska on May 12, 1992, and remained in that position until June 30, 1996.
Karadzic was not a member of the delegation of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia at the Dayton peace talks. In 1996, under pressure from the member states of the contact group and Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, Karadzic himself left political life and transferred presidential powers to RS Vice President Biljana Plavsic.
The first indictment of the Hague Tribunal against Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic was confirmed on July 25, 1995, and charged them with genocide and other crimes committed against civilians throughout the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The second indictment was confirmed on November 16, 1995, and related to the events that took place in Srebrenica in July 1995. The amended indictment against Radovan Karadzic was confirmed on May 31, 2000, and contained one count for grave breaches of the 1949 Geneva Conventions, three counts for violations of the laws or customs of war, two counts for genocide and five counts for crimes against humanity.
Following the Hague indictment, an Interpol warrant was issued for Karadzic, and the United States government offered $ 5 million to help arrest Karadzic and Mladic.
International military forces stationed in the former Yugoslavia have tried unsuccessfully to arrest him on several occasions. Radovan Karadzic is married to Ljiljana Zelen-Karadzic, with whom he has children Sonja and Sasa.
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