| Karadzic’s wife asked to quit Red Cross post
Daria Sito-Sucic in SARAJEVO THE wife of the war crimes fugitive Radovan Karadzic should step
down as head of the Bosnian Serb Red Cross because her presence there
reduces donor support, the International Committee of the Red Cross said
yesterday.
An ICRC official said international donors were reluctant to pledge more funds to the Red Cross in Bosnia’s Serb republic as long as Ljiljana Zelen-Karadzic remained at the helm. "Her presence creates problems because she is connected to a person who is indicted for war crimes," Gianni Volpin, director of communications at the Geneva-based organisation’s Bosnian office, said. He did not criticise her work in running the Red Cross in the Serb Republic, one of post-war Bosnia’s two autonomous entities, but said it had an image problem because of her. The United Nations war crimes court in The Hague has twice indicted Karadzic of genocide for allegedly masterminding the mass killing of Bosnian Muslims and Croats during the 1992-95 war. His wife showed no signs of heeding the ICRC’s call, accusing it of interference. "If the ICRC has changed principles and taken on a political role defining family responsibility in suspicions of committing war crimes I expect your superiors to officially inform me of these new principles," she wrote in an open letter published in her home town of Pale this week. |
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