Thugs brought to book
ON FEBRUARY 11th 1993, Radovan Karadzic, then the leader of the Bosnian Serbs, was staying at the Hotel Inter-Continental on East 48th Street in New York city, while on a visit to the United Nations. As Mr Karadzic walked through his hotel lobby, a man approached him, shoved a sheaf of papers at him and said something like, “You've been served.” Mr Karadzic's security detail held the man back and hustled Mr Karadzic into the lift.
This article appeared in the New Articles section of the print edition under the headline “Thugs brought to book”
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