Radovan Karadzic, a onetime psychiatrist who led his Bosnian Serb people through a brutal ethnic war, was extradited early today to the international tribunal in The Hague, where he will stand trial on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity. A fugitive for more than a decade, Karadzic has been in a Serbian jail since his arrest, which was announced July 21. He had been living a secret life in Belgrade as a New Age-style healer, disguised in a bushy white beard and openly dispensing advice to a new community of followers. Karadzic was president of the self-declared Bosnian Serb Republic during Bosnia-Herzegovina's 1992-95 war and is accused of orchestrating a campaign of mass murder aimed at repressing Bosnian Muslims. In an extensive indictment from the war crimes tribunal, he is accused of overseeing the 1995 massacre of more than 7,000 Muslim men and boys in the besieged enclave of Srebrenica -- the largest atrocity in post-World War II Europe -- and of staging a 43-month siege of Sarajevo, Bosnia's capital. Karadzic also faces charges of extermination, murder, deportation, inhumane acts and other crimes against Muslim, Croat and other non-Serb Bosnian civilians. The extradition followed violent protests Tuesday in Belgrade by Serbian nationalists and involved an elaborate ruse. Under cover of darkness, a convoy of sport utility vehicles sped from the courthouse where Karadzic was being held and headed toward Belgrade's air ...
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