ABSTRACT
Dr Radovan Karadžic founder of the Serbian Democratic Party, was indicted fourteen years ago and went into hiding for over a decade. He was arrested on 21 July 2008 on a bus in Belgrade, disguised by a thick beard and glasses. He had been posing as a doctor of alternative medicine under the name Dr Dragan David Dabic. Karadžic left his birthplace, Montenegro, in 1960 to study medicine in Sarajevo. He was fifteen and described as convivial with a wide circle of friends drawn from the various ethnic groups in the city—Serbs, Croats, and Muslims. He was also described as slightly shady—living on credit at the local shops and playing poker for small stakes, paying his way through medical school. Karadžic’s intelligence and ability to win people over were considerable factors in his soaring career. From Sarajevo, he studied as a postgraduate, first in Denmark, and then in 1975 for a year at Columbia University in New York.
