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Still Hunting the World's Most Wanted Man

12 years later, architect of Bosnian massacre remains at large

By Jason Farago, Newser Staff

Posted Dec 2, 2007 4:56 PM CST

(Newser) – He ordered mass murders, used gang-rape as a military weapon, and coined the term "ethnic cleansing" in the Balkans War, but a dozen years later Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic still roams the hills where he once wrought havoc. With Karadzic still a fugitive... Read full story »

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