Crackdown on key Karadzic allies

Two senior Bosnian Serb politicians are among 60 officials sacked, 30 June 2004, over the government's failure to arrest war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic. The BBC's Nick Hawton, in Sarajevo, says these are the most significant steps ever taken by the international community to attack the network protecting Mr Karadzic and show a renewed determination to break the network that has been protecting Europe's most wanted man.

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