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Radovan Karadzic

NATO-led peacekeepers in eastern Bosnia-Herzegovina have once again failed to locate former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic.

A NATO statement says alliance-led forces looked for the war crimes suspect Friday in the Celibici area, southeast of Sarajevo, not far from where a massive search the previous day was also unsuccessful.

However, NATO Secretary-General George Robertson vowed Mr. Karadzic will be found eventually and that his time evading justice is running out.

Mr. Karadzic has evaded capture since being indicted by the U.N. tribunal at the Hague on charges of war crimes and genocide committed during the Bosnian conflict of the 1990s.

The Hague tribunal indicted Mr. Karadzic and his military chief, General Ratko Mladic, for the shelling of civilians in Sarajevo during the Bosnian conflict. Other charges include their role in the disappearance and presumed killing of thousands of Muslim men and boys after Serb forces captured the enclave of Srebrenica in July, 1995.

The Bosnian Serb government earlier this month gave war crimes suspects a 30-day deadline to surrender or lose their chance of being provisionally released on bail, if detained.

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