Accused war criminal Goran Hadzic captured

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Hadzic was the leader of Croatian Serb separatist forces during the Croatian War of Independence. In 2004 he was indicted with 14 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the war.

Marco Prelec, Balkans Project director of the International Crisis Group, told The Takeaway that Hadzic was one of the most wanted men in the world, and his crimes, which began in 1991, were a “dress rehersal” for large-scale crimes committed in Bosnia the following four years.

“All of the things that we saw there — the mass killings, ethnic cleansing, and destruction of villages — all of those things were tried out for the very first time under Hadzic’s watch in Eastern Serbia and then repeated later on in Bosnia,” said Preiec.

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