Bosnia Seizes Travel Documents of Karadzic Family and Freezes Assets of Remaining Top War Crimes Suspect as New ICTY Prosecutor Increases Pressure to Arrest Them

On January 10, 2008, Miroslav Lajcak, Bosnia’s top international envoy, ordered the seizure of travel documents belonging to members of Radovan Karadzic’s family on suspicion that they are helping Karadzic, while the central cabinet decided to freeze the assets of remaining four top war crimes suspects. Meanwhile, Serge Brammertz, the new prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for War Crimes in the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), announced a new initiative to capture Bosnian Serb wartime leaders Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic...[more]