Radovan Karadžić, a prominent political figure in Bosnia and Herzegovina, rose to infamy as a Bosnian Serb leader convicted of genocide during the Yugoslav Wars in the 1990s. Karadžić served as the President of Republika Srpska, a self-proclaimed Serb-led entity within Bosnia and Herzegovina. His actions during the Bosnian War, including the Srebrenica massacre, led to his eventual conviction for war crimes, including genocide, by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).