Nationalists Honor War Crimes Suspect
From Times Wire Reports
Supporters of one of the world’s most wanted war crimes suspect, Radovan Karadzic, trekked by the thousands to the mountain hamlet of Sula in his native republic of Montenegro for a song festival in his honor.
Karadzic, a former Bosnian Serb wartime leader, is accused of orchestrating Europe’s worst massacre of civilians since World War II -- the 1995 slaughter of up to 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys in the U.N.-protected enclave of Srebrenica. Yet the self-styled poet remains a hero among many nationalist Serbs and Montenegrins.
Sign up for Essential California
The most important California stories and recommendations in your inbox every morning.
You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times.
