Description: (Politician)
Radovan Karadžić, a former psychiatrist, transitioned into a Bosnian Serb politician and co-founded the Serb Democratic Party in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He served as the first president of Republika Srpska during the Bosnian War. In 1996, he was indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and remained a fugitive until his arrest in 2008. Following his conviction for genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, Karadžić was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2019 after an unsuccessful appeal.