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The capture of war criminal Radovan Karadzic

In 2008, one of Europe’s most wanted men was arrested in Belgrade after more than a decade in hiding. Radovan Karadzic had taken on a new identity as an alternative healer.

In 2008, one of Europe’s most wanted fugitives, the former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, was arrested in Belgrade for war crimes. Karadzic had been in hiding for more than a decade, pretending to be an alternative medicine healer called "Dr Dabic". Serbia’s former war crimes prosecutor Vladimir Vuckevic remembers the tense days that led to Karadzic’s capture.

PHOTO: Radovan Karadzic in 1992 (Getty Images)

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