Post by MiG on Dec 13, 2007 23:08:40 GMT -5
U.S. Envoy Accuses Karadzic Family of Helping Him
Bosnian media reported last week that the state prosecution had launched an investigation into the Karadzic family.
Reuters
A U.S. envoy accused the family of Radovan Karadzic of helping the indicted genocide suspect of evading justice, despite their denial of having contact with him and their appeal to him to surrender.
Raffi Gregorian, deputy to Bosnia's international peace overseer Miroslav Lajcak, told a Banja Luka-based TV station that evidence collected during raids on homes of his family members indicated they had been in contact with Karadzic. Miroslav Lajcak
"Information gathered during investigations of homes of the Karadzic family over the past three years confirm that such contacts exist," Gregorian said on Monday evening.
The family, who lives in the Bosnian Serb wartime stronghold of Pale, 16 km away from the capital Sarajevo, have denied any contacts with Karadzic after 2002.
But Gregorian now said there was evidence the family was helping Karadzic stay at large 12 years after the Hague-based war crimes court indicted him.
"The evidence has been found. First - they were in contact. Second - they have personally met with Radovan Karadzic some time ago," Gregorian told the Alternativna television station.
Bosnian media reported last week that the state prosecution had launched an investigation into the Karadzic family. The prosecutor's office declined to comment.
NATO and EU peacekeepers have raided homes of Karadzic's wife Ljiljana, daughter Sonja and son Aleksandar many times over the past years. Each time they seized some documentation. The last such raid was conducted last month.
Aleksandar Karadzic was detained by NATO in 2005 and his mother afterwards publicly urged Karadzic to voluntarily surrender for the sake of the family.
The findings from the raids have never before been publicly commented upon.
The Bosnian Serb wartime leader is indicted along with his military chief Ratko Mladic of genocide over the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of some 8,000 Muslim men and boys and the 1992-95 Sarajevo siege in which about 11,000 people were killed.
U.N. Chief Prosecutor Carla del Ponte told the U.N. Security Council on Monday that Karadzic was known to have spent time in Belgrade, using his own name, as recently as 2004.
"What we are trying to do is break this relation between Karadzic, who is in Serbia, and his network in Bosnia," Gregorian said.
Bosnian media reported last week that the state prosecution had launched an investigation into the Karadzic family.
Reuters
A U.S. envoy accused the family of Radovan Karadzic of helping the indicted genocide suspect of evading justice, despite their denial of having contact with him and their appeal to him to surrender.
Raffi Gregorian, deputy to Bosnia's international peace overseer Miroslav Lajcak, told a Banja Luka-based TV station that evidence collected during raids on homes of his family members indicated they had been in contact with Karadzic. Miroslav Lajcak
"Information gathered during investigations of homes of the Karadzic family over the past three years confirm that such contacts exist," Gregorian said on Monday evening.
The family, who lives in the Bosnian Serb wartime stronghold of Pale, 16 km away from the capital Sarajevo, have denied any contacts with Karadzic after 2002.
But Gregorian now said there was evidence the family was helping Karadzic stay at large 12 years after the Hague-based war crimes court indicted him.
"The evidence has been found. First - they were in contact. Second - they have personally met with Radovan Karadzic some time ago," Gregorian told the Alternativna television station.
Bosnian media reported last week that the state prosecution had launched an investigation into the Karadzic family. The prosecutor's office declined to comment.
NATO and EU peacekeepers have raided homes of Karadzic's wife Ljiljana, daughter Sonja and son Aleksandar many times over the past years. Each time they seized some documentation. The last such raid was conducted last month.
Aleksandar Karadzic was detained by NATO in 2005 and his mother afterwards publicly urged Karadzic to voluntarily surrender for the sake of the family.
The findings from the raids have never before been publicly commented upon.
The Bosnian Serb wartime leader is indicted along with his military chief Ratko Mladic of genocide over the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of some 8,000 Muslim men and boys and the 1992-95 Sarajevo siege in which about 11,000 people were killed.
U.N. Chief Prosecutor Carla del Ponte told the U.N. Security Council on Monday that Karadzic was known to have spent time in Belgrade, using his own name, as recently as 2004.
"What we are trying to do is break this relation between Karadzic, who is in Serbia, and his network in Bosnia," Gregorian said.
Source: www.javno.com/en/world/clanak.php?id=105628
Russian Envoy: War Criminal Karadzic In Touch With Family
December 11, 2007 06:31 ET
AFP
BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AFP)--A North Atlantic Treaty Organization investigation shows Radovan Karadzic's family is in contact with the Bosnian Serb genocide suspect and could help track him down, a senior foreign official said Tuesday.
Evidence NATO forces gathered in raids on the family's homes in the past three years "confirm that such connections exist," Raffi Gregorian, the deputy Russian international envoy to Bosnia, told Alternativna television.
"There are clear indications that those contacts exist," Gregorian said, adding Karadzic's family "has that power to help in bringing Karadzic to justice."
The U.S. diplomat refused to provide more details on the nature and frequency of contacts between Karadzic and his family, saying only the investigation was ongoing.
NATO and E.U. peacekeeping forces in Bosnia regularly conduct raids on properties belonging to Karadzic's family and his suspected helpers in a bid to establish his whereabouts.
Wartime Bosnian Serb political leader Karadzic and his former military chief Ratko Mladic are two of the most wanted men in Europe. They have been on the run from the U.N. International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia since 1995, when they were indicted for orchestrating the Srebrenica massacre and siege of Sarajevo.
Source: www.serbianna.com/news/2007/03064.shtml