(CNN) -- Goran Hadzic, the last Yugoslav war crimes suspect still at large, was captured in Serbia Wednesday, a war crimes tribunal announced. An ex-Croatian Serb rebel leader who has been a fugitive for seven years, Hadzic was wanted for crimes against humanity and war crimes in connection with the wars that followed the break-up of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s. The former president of a self-proclaimed Serbian republic in Croatia, Hadzic is accused of trying to remove Croats and other non-Serbs from the territory and the "extermination or murder of hundreds of Croat or other non-Serb civilians," among many other crimes, according to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
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NEW: The prosecutor calls the capture an "important milestone"
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Serbia's president announces that Goran Hadzic is seized
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Hadzic is wanted for war crimes and crimes against humanity
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The announcement comes less than two months after the capture of Ratko Mladic
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Plans were being made for Hadzic's transfer into the Tribunal's custody after the completion of legal proceedings in @placeholder.
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@placeholder has now produced visible evidence that cooperation with the Tribunal is not an empty promise but a genuine commitment and we look forward to Serbia's assistance with our ongoing work."
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Serbia has now produced visible evidence that cooperation with the Tribunal is not an empty promise but a genuine commitment and we look forward to @placeholder's assistance with our ongoing work."
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The indictment against Hadzic said he was "a co-perpetrator in a joint criminal enterprise" -- the permanent and forcible removal of a "majority of the Croat and other @placeholder population from approximately one-third of the territory of the Republic of Croatia"  to make the land part of a "new Serb-dominated state."
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He is also accused of other crimes against the @placeholder and other non-Serb civilian population.