The ex Bosnian-Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has had a lawyer appointed to him by the UN's Yugoslav War Crimes court after his failure to attend the first week of his own trial.

Radovan Karadzic has many faces. He was a doctor, a psychiatrist, a poet, and a writer of kids books. He also was the man who in the 1990s drenched Bosnia, Herzegovina and Serbia in blood and hatred - events for which he now stands trial in The Hague.

Bosnian Serb Radovan Karadzic had sought to see his case dismissed. Today the Yugoslavian war crimes tribunal rejected his request, meaning Karadzic is one step closer to facing trial.

While hiding for about thirteen years, former Serb leader of Bosnia, Dr. Radovan Karadzic, spent his remaining years before capture as a popular alternative healer.

Ljiljana Zelen-Karadzic, the wife of the most wanted Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic, called again on her husband to turn himself in, Sarajevo magazine Slobodna Bosna reported Thursday.

The UN prosecutor for war crimes committed in the former Yugoslavia, Carla del Ponte, expressed pessimism Wednesday over the prospects of fugitive Bosnian Serbs Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic ever being arrested.

The UN prosecutor for war crimes committed in former Yugoslavia, Carla del Ponte, expressed pessimism Wednesday over prospects of fugitive Bosnian Serbs Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic ever being arrested.

Carla del Ponte left Belgrade Friday possibly for the last time as head prosecutor of the UN war crimes tribunal, aware that she would end her term without getting her hands on the suspect she wanted the most, the Bosnian Serb General Ratko Mladic.