The Hague (Netherlands), July 30 : Former Bosnian Serb leader, Radovan Karadzic, has arrived in the Netherlands to face trial before a UN war-crimes tribunal in The Hague.

Karadzic, who was arrested in Belgrade last week after 13 years on the run, is to appear before the tribunal on Thursday.

He has been indicted for crimes against humanity and genocide during the Bosnian conflict of the 1990s.

It comes hours after clashes at a rally attended by at least 10,000 supporters to protest his arrest, the BBC reported.

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London, July 29 : Serbian war crimes fugitive Radovan Karadzic stole the idea of living as a prominent doctor from a best-selling novel.

The tale by Serbian author Mirjana Djurdjevic imagined the former Bosnian Serb leader, 63 - a trained psychiatrist - was working "in plain view" in a clinic in the capital.

According to The Sun, Djurjevic wrote of Karadzic using a wacky haircut and eccentric white hat and black suit to deflect attention from his "cold" eyes.

Sarajevo/Pale  - Several thousand Bosnian Serbs organized Saturday peaceful protests and prayers in towns across the Bosnian Serb entity, the Srpska Republic, in support of Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic.

Some 1,500 people marched in a peaceful demonstration in Karadzic's former stronghold of Pale, a village some 20 kilometres south-east of the capital Sarajevo.

Many of the protesters held Karadzic's picture and banners with a message to the former leader: "We are with you!"

Berlin  - Radovan Karadzic would have made "a good Nazi," Richard Holbrooke, the US special envoy who brokered the 1995 deal that ended the Bosnian war, has said, following the arrest of the Bosnian Serb leader in Belgrade.

Speaking to the German news magazine Der Spiegel in remarks published Saturday, Holbrooke said he had been "beside myself with joy" at the news of Karadzic's arrest in Belgrade on Monday.

Sarajevo - Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb leader indicted for war crimes, may lose his property in order to compensate the victims of his alleged crimes, Bosnian media reported Friday quoting a US official in Bosnia.

Sarajevo daily Dnevni avaz reported that Karadzic owes some 4.5 billion US dollars to a group of people who sued him before a US court for "organizing detention facilities where non-Serb women were systematically raped."