波黑前塞族领导人卡拉季奇被逮捕

塞尔维亚宣布逮捕了战争罪犯嫌疑人、世界上最重要的通缉犯之一的卡拉季奇。卡拉季奇被指控对二战以来欧洲最耸人听闻的大屠杀负责。

The office of Serbian President Boris Tadic says former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic was arrested late Monday in a raid by Serbian security forces.

塞尔维亚总统塔迪克的办公室表示，前波斯尼亚塞族领导人卡拉季奇星期一晚间在塞尔维亚安全部队的突袭行动中被逮捕。

Officials say Karadzic was transferred to an investigative judge of Serbia's War Crimes Court in Belgrade.

有关官员说，卡拉季奇被移交到贝尔格莱德的塞尔维亚战争罪法庭。

Prosecutors of The Hague-based United Nations War Crimes Tribunal charged Karadzic with genocide and crimes against humanity during the Bosnian war. He is accused of masterminding the killing of more than 7,000 Muslims in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica.

联合国设在海牙的战争罪法庭指控卡拉季奇在波黑战争期间犯有种族灭绝罪、反人道罪和其它暴行。卡拉季奇被控策划了在波斯尼亚城镇斯雷布雷尼察屠杀超过七千名穆斯林的行动。

In the United States, the White House welcomed the arrest and said it is atribute to the victims of the war's atrocities.

美国政府欢迎逮捕卡拉季奇的行动并表示这归功于战争罪行的受害者。

Karadzic's wartime military commander Ratko Mladic, who is also among the most wanted men by the war crimes court, remains at large.

卡拉季奇在战争时期的指挥官姆拉迪奇也是战争罪法庭的通缉要犯之一，目前仍然在逃。

The executive director of the Belgrade-based Balkan Trust for Democracy, Ivan Vejvoda, says Karadzic's arrest was the right move for the Serbian government.

总部在贝尔格莱德的巴尔干民主基金会负责人韦沃达说，逮捕卡拉季奇是塞尔维亚政府的正确行动。

The arrest "also shows very importantly that the new government in Belgrade has demonstrated in practice what it said rhetorically, that it has the political will to move forward and make the arrests of the remaining (war crimes) indictees a priority of its government."

他说：“这非常有力地表明，贝尔格莱德新政府以实际行动兑现了承诺，新政府有政治意愿，把逮捕其余的战争罪犯作为政府的一个首要任务。”

The U.N. Chief Prosecutor Serge Brammertz also welcomed the arrest of Karadzic, saying it is an "important day for international justice because it clearly demonstrates that nobody is beyond the reach of the law."

联合国海牙战争罪法庭首席检察官布拉默茨也对逮捕卡拉季奇表示欢迎，说这是“显示国际正义的重要一天，因为这清楚地表明没有人可以逃脱法网”。

Serbia had been under pressure from the European Union, Washington and the United Nations to turn Karadzic and other war time suspects over to The Hague tribunal.

塞尔维亚曾一直受到欧盟、华盛顿和联合国的共同压力，要求将卡拉季奇和其他战争罪犯嫌疑人送上海牙法庭，接受审判。