Psychiatrist, poet and ‘mastermind of ethnic cleansing’

HE WAS accused of masterminding massacres that the United Nations war crimes tribunal described as “scenes from hell, written on the darkest pages of human history”.

Monday’s capture of Radovan Karadzic, 63, the wartime leader of the Bosnian Serbs and one of the world’s most-wanted men, ended a 13-year manhunt for a genocide suspect said to have resorted to elaborate disguises to elude authorities.

Serbian president Boris Tadic’s office said in a statement that Karadzic was arrested “in an action by the Serbian security services”.