Radovan Karadzic explains why he became "Dr. Dabic"

Hague convict Radovan Karadzic has told the daily Vecernje Novosti that he had "a secret agreement" with Richard Holbrook, a former US envoy for the Balkans.

According to Karadzic, the deal was for him to withdraw from public life after the signing of the Dayton Agreement (in 1995), while Holbrook would in return "leave him alone."

"After stepping down from power I moved freely, convinced that Holbrook was keeping his word, but voices were arriving that he could not fulfill it, and that NATO preferred my liquidation to my arrest. (Chief Hague Tribunal Prosecutor) Carla Del Ponte confirmed it. I decided to lead them away from my family home, and my discrete 'habitation' thus began," Karadzic said.

He stressed that after the assassination of Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djidjic (in 2003) and the passing of the Law on Cooperation with the Hague Tribunal, he thanked...