He was trained as a psychiatrist, fancied himself a poet and was known for his flamboyant head of hair. Today he was convicted of genocide and sentenced to 40 years in prison.
The conflict in the former Yugoslavia offers some lessons for policymakers considering how to intervene in Syria. Reuters columnist David Rohde has covered both struggles and sees some parallels.
Kathryn Bolkovac's book is about the alleged involvement of western officials in the sex trafficking.
Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with journalist Laura Silber, who met the former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic during the Balkan Wars of the 1990s.
Anchor Marco Werman talks to Ljiljana Smajlovic, president of the Journalists Association of Serbia, about the news that Serbia has officially apologized for the 1995 massacre of thousands of Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica.
Former Bosnian Serb leader evaded war crimes prosecutors for years ? in part ? by openly practicing alternative medicine. Anchor Katy Clark speaks with Jack Hitt, who's written a story on Karadzic for this weekend's New York Times Magazine.
Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with the BBC's Nick Thorpe in Budapest, Hungary, where some people are still shivering from a lack of heat. The natural gas dispute between Russia and Ukraine is to blame. The dispute apparently ended today, only to start again. We also hear how people are coping with the cold in Bulgaria and Bosnia.
The World's Jeb Sharp has the final installment in our series on How Wars End. Today, she focuses on the war in Bosnia, which ended with a U.S.-led diplomatic breakthrough in 1995.
The 16 mosques of Banja Luka, in Bosnia, were destroyed during the conflict there in the early 1990's. Now the most famous of those mosques is being rebuilt, using many of the original stones.
The former Bosnian Serb leader, Radovan Karadzic had been leading a secret life before his arrest earlier this week, and The BBC's Christian Fraser followed in Karadzic's footsteps to find out more about that secret life.