Radovan Karadzic will appear before a United Nations tribunal in The Hague to face charges of war crimes and genocide, after a pre-dawn extradition to the Netherlands yesterday.

The former Bosnian Serb leader accused of war crimes arrived in Rotterdam on a small Serbian government jet early yesterday. He was transferred by helicopter to the tribunal's detention unit in Scheveningen near The Hague, which is home to 37 other war crime suspects.