Disguised Karadzic 'Gave Spirituality Lectures'

Belgrade _ Top war crimes fugitive Radovan Karadzic had been hiding in Belgrade under a false identity as a doctor and gave lectures on spirituality, Balkan Insight has learnt.

"Karadzic was hiding in New Belgrade under a false identity...He was using name of Dragan Dabic," Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic said, adding that the world's most wanted war crimes fugitive "practiced alternative medicine in a private office in Belgrade."

"Karadzic was moving freely in Belgrade. His false identity was so convincing that no one was able to identify him, including his landlord and employer," Vukcevic said.

Balkan Insight has learn that a Belgrade magazine "Healthy Life" ran a series of stories signed by Dragan David Dabic, a doctor from Belgrade.

The man under the same name lectured on healthy living in Belgrade's Ada Ciganlija on May 23.

The employees of the magazine told Balkan Insight that the man shown in the most recent photographed Karadzic as displayed by the Serbian prosecutor, looks absolutely like the contributor.



"I met him in September at a lecture about spirituality. A friend introduced us and he seemed like a very nice man who knows about spirituality... with his long beard and long hair he doesn't resemble Karadzic at all. I would have never guessed," Goran Kojic, the editor in chief of the magazine told Balkan Insight.
"He wrote without a fee... as Dragan Dabic spiritual healer."

Balkan Insight has also obtained a photograph (above) posted on
http://www.sombor-cancer.org.yu/HTML/Zdrav_zivot.html, which says 'Dr. Dragan Dabic', a neuro-psychiatrist held a lecture in Novi Sad on April 12.

Karadzic, who went under the name DD David, apparently had a website http://www.psy-help-energy.com/Index.html where he advertised his energy healing treatment for everything ranging from impotence, through to asthma, multiple sclerosis and autism. His method involved tempering with what he called Human Quantum Energy according to a practice he named the David Wellbeing Program.



Vukcevic said that security forces arrested the former Bosnian Serb leader in a carefully planned operation, and under minimal security risk for police and the fugitive.

The operation which eventually led to Karadzic's arrest started in the afternoon.

Karadzic was arrested in a operation which initially targeted a group of aides to former Bosnian Serbs military chief Ratko Mladic but Serbian security forces seemed surprised when they stumbled across the other top fugitive.

However, Karadzic’s attorney, Sveta Vujacic, said his client had been arrested on Friday when he was on board a bus. "He just said that these people showed him a police badge and then he was taken to some place and kept in a room. And that is absolutely against the law what they did."

The charges against Karadzic, last amended in May 2000, include genocide, extermination, murder, deportation, inhumane acts, and other crimes committed against Bosnian Muslim, Bosnian Croat and other non-Serb civilians in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the 1992-1995 war.

Read more on Karadzic's arrest here: http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/main/news/11955/