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A shaven Radovan Karadzic appears for the first time in the court room of the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague to answer genocide charges.

A helicopter carrying Radovan Karadzic lands in the inner yard of the detention centre of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia on the North Sea coast at Scheveningen, on the outskirts of The Hague

Police in Belgrade fire tear gas to break up scuffles with youths during a demonstration by hardline Serbian nationalists against the extradition of Radovan Karadzic the night before he was taken to the international criminal court in The Hague

The demonstration in Belgrade against the extradition of Radovan Karadic began peacefully and attracted fewer people than expected. Police officials put the turnout at just 11,000, well short of the tens of thousands that organisers had promised.

Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb president, was captured on Monday near Belgrade. At a news conference on Tuesday Serbian officials said Mr Karadzic had been practising alternative medicine in the city, having assumed an elaborate disguise

In the streets of Sarajevo, crowds gathered to celebrate the capture of the most-wanted war criminal from the 1992-1995 conflict. The civil war claimed some 100,000 lives

Serbian newspapers trumpeted the news of Mr Karadzic's capture by domestic security forces. The former Bosnia-Serb president had been on the run for more than a decade

Mr Karadzic became president of the Serbian Democratic Party in 1990. When civil war broke out in Bosnia in 1992 Mr Karadzic began a military campaign to drive Bosnian-Croats and Muslims from "Serbian" lands

Bosnian Serb forces shelled and laid siege to Sarajevo for 43-months, during which 12,000 people were killed and 50,000 left injured

The most notorious event of the war came in 1995 when Bosnian-Serb forces attacked a UN "safe-haven" at Srebrenica, forcing thousands of refugees to flee

Up to 8,000 Bosnian-Muslim men and boys were murdered there. In 2005 Serbian television aired a video of Serbian paramilitaries executing Bosnian Muslims

According to the post-war United Nations indictment, Mr Karadzic and his military commander Ratko Mladic (left), are responsible for acts of genocide. Mr Mladic remains on the run

Mr Karadzic was indicted for war crimes crimes in 1995 but he evaded capture by Nato forces. Prior to his arrest he had last been seen in public in 1996

Serbia’s government, which is keen to join the European Union, will now face renewed pressure to bring Mr Mladic to justice

Police secure the building in Belgrade where Radovan Karadzic is being held