Belgrade suburb neighbours of Radovan Karadzic, Bosnia Serb leader during
the Bosnia-Herzegovina war and one of the world's most wanted men for his part
in civilian massacres, express surprise on hearing he has been living in their
midst under an assumed name.

 BELGRADE, SERBIA (JULY 23, 2008)REUTERS -
 Residents in the Novi Belgrade suburb of the Serbian capital said on
Wednesday (July 23) they were unaware that the man living among them was
Bosnia Serb wartime president Radovan Kadazic, a war crimes suspect charged
with genocide.
    Karadzic, leader of the Bosnian Serbs in the 1992-95 Bosnia-Herzegovina
war, was arrested in Serbia on Monday (July 21) after 11 years on the run.
    The former Bosnian Serb leader lived under an assumed name for years
and worked as a doctor of alternative medicine.
    He wore thick glasses and grew a bushy beard and long hair, which he
wore in a plaited topknot, to avoid recognition.
    A woman who lived in the building which Karadzic lived said: "It
wasn't even in the back of my mind that it was him. In general I don't like to
investigate people. He was a free man so he had the right to walk
around."
    She added she had seen him recently but was unsure how long he had been
living in the area.
    Freely moving around town, Karadzic was a regular in a Belgrade tavern
owned by a Bosnian Serb, who had a wartime portrait of him over the bar.
    Novi Belgrade resident and former war correspondent Nebojsa Jevric
said, "Actually I had the opportunity to meet Radovan a couple of times
during the war and I couldn't believe the man that presented himself as a
doctor of alternative medicine, and I really believe that he possessed some
bioenergy, I couldn't imagine that was him."
    Jevric added: "But the most bizarre thing is that he liked to sit
in this bar under his picture. He wasn't that often in this bar but he could
be seen at the bus station nearby. He was always nicely dressed with a very
clean beard and hair and he was also seen in the local shops and he was really
well known on the local vegetable market. He really liked to walk there and
talk to people."
   An unidentified man in the bar said, "I saw him three or four times
here. I can't remember exactly but the first time I saw him his appearance
made a big impression."
    Karadzic is twice indicted for genocide for the massacre of 8,000
Bosnian Muslims in the town of Srebrenica in 1995 and for the 43-month siege
of Sarajevo. Some 11,000 people died in the city from sniper fire, mortar
attacks, starvation and illness.
    Karadzic had wanted Serb areas of Bosnia to be linked to Serbia and
other Serb-dominated areas at a time when autocrat Slobodan Milosevic was
fanning nationalism in Serbia.