Serbian President Boris Tadic told an urgent news conference in Belgrade on Wednesday that the last remaining fugitive wanted by the UN war crimes court in The Hague, former Croatian Serb rebel leader Goran Hadzic has been arrested in the mountain region of Fruska Gora.
Hadzic was Croatian Serb wartime leader indicted for crimes against humanity during the 1991-95 Croatian war.
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) indicted Hadzic in July 2004 on 14 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity during the 1991-1995 conflict.
He is charged with a number of crimes committed in eastern Slavonia, including murder and persecution of the Croat and non-Serb civilian population, prolonged imprisonment of civilians in detention facilities where torture, beatings and killing was not uncommon, forcible transfer of tens of thousands of non-Serbs from across the area under his control to make it part of a new Serb-dominated state.
Hadzic is also indicted for the massacre at the Ovcara farm, where 250 Croats taken from the Osijek Hospital were executed in 1991.