nationality birth_date term_end alma_mater profession order term_start spouse image name caption native_name_lang predecessor alias birth_place party office successor religion native_name article_title
serb 19 june 1945 19 july 1996 university of sarajevo columbia medical school psychiatrist 1st 7 april 1992 ljiljana zelen karadžić ; 1 son evstafiev-radovan karadzic 3mar94.jpg radovan karadžić karadžić in march 1994 sr '' position established '' dr. dragan david dabić petar glumac petnjica , montenegro , df yugoslavia serbian democratic party president of republika srpska biljana plavšić serbian orthodox sr-cyrl Радован Караџић radovan karadžić

radovan karadžić

radovan karadžić -lrb- , ; born 19 june 1945 -rrb- is a former bosnian serb politician .
during the breakup of yugoslavia , karadžić , as president of the republika srpska , sought the direct unification of that entity with serbia .
he is detained in the united nations detention unit of scheveningen , accused of war crimes committed against bosnian muslims and bosnian croats during the siege of sarajevo , as well as ordering the srebrenica genocide .
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 -lrb- icty -rrb- .
the indictment concluded there were reasonable grounds for believing he committed war crimes , including genocide against bosnian muslim and bosnian croat civilians during the bosnian war -lrb- 1992 -- 95 -rrb- .
while a fugitive he worked at a private clinic in belgrade , specialising in alternative medicine and psychology under the alias `` dr. dragan david dabić '' -lrb- -rrb- under the company name of `` human quantum energy '' .
his nephew , dragan karadžić , has claimed in an interview to the `` corriere della sera '' that radovan karadžić attended football matches of serie a and that he visited venice using a different alias -lrb- petar glumac -rrb- .
he was eventually arrested in belgrade on 21 july 2008 and brought before belgrade 's war crimes court a few days later .
extradited to the netherlands , he is in the custody of the international criminal tribunal for the former yugoslavia .
he is sometimes referred to by the western media as the `` butcher of bosnia '' , a sobriquet also applied to former vrs general ratko mladić .
