Wife calls on Karadžić to surrender

Sarajevo, October 05 (Source: B92) - Ljiljana Zelen-Karadžić called on her husband, Hague fugitive Radovan Karadžić, to surrender to the police. Zelen-Karadžić said that her family is “going through hell” because of his hiding and that she, his children and grandchildren expect him to surrender. She added that her family is "visited by CIA agents," that her son Aleksander was taken into custody and that international officials keep telling her that there will be serious consequences for the family if her husband does not turn himself in.

Zelen-Karadžić explained that her July 2005 call on husband Radovan to surrender was done at the request of CIA agents, though she stated that there was "not a lot of pressure put on her to do so." “I simply, after everything, thought that it would be best to call on him to surrender because there was no other form of communication, just as there is none now. The last time Radovan was here was 2002 and after that we have not been in contact,” she said.

Zelen-Karadžić also confirmed that her husband told her he signed "a secret agreement in 1996 with U.S. diplomat Richard Holbrooke that promised he would “ot have to worry about the Hague if he gave up his political career in Bosnia." “One of the key reasons Radovan left was the threat that the Republic of Srpska would be abolished and that his party would be prohibited from participating in elections,” his wife said. She claims that the U.S. ambassador for war crimes Pierre-Richard Prosper visited Radovan’s brother in 2001 and told him that “they will never see him alive again and that they will kill him when they find him, and we will die of hunger.

” She also said that "similar things" were said to her by U.S. General and NATO Commander in Bosnia-Herzegovina Steven Shook. Ljiljana Zelen-Karadžić claims that police and former leaders of the Republic of Srpska have also visited her, offering EUR 25,000 for Radovan’s surrender.

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