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Karadzic guilty of Bosnia genocide, jailed for 40 years
Source: Reuters
World | Thu Mar 24, 2016 12:46pm EDT
Karadzic guilty of Bosnia genocide, jailed for 40 years
THE HAGUE | BY TOBY STERLING, ANTHONY DEUTSCH AND THOMAS ESCRITT
Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic was convicted by U.N. judges of genocide for the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, the worst war crime in Europe since World War Two, and sentenced to 40 years in prison.
Karadzic, 70, the former president of the breakaway Bosnian Serb Republic, was found guilty on 10 out of 11 charges brought by war crimes prosecutors at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague. He would appeal the decision, his legal adviser said.
"The accused was the sole person within Republika Srpska (the Bosnian Serb Republic) with the power to prevent the killing of the Bosnian Muslim males," said presiding judge O-Gon Kwok, in a reference to the 8,000 killed at Srebrenica.
"Far from preventing it, he ordered they be transferred elsewhere to be killed," the judge said.
Karadzic was acquitted of one count of genocide in various towns across Bosnia during the war of the 1990s.
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Karadzic guilty of Bosnia genocide, jailed for 40 years
THE HAGUE | BY TOBY STERLING, ANTHONY DEUTSCH AND THOMAS ESCRITT
Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic was convicted by U.N. judges of genocide for the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, the worst war crime in Europe since World War Two, and sentenced to 40 years in prison.
Karadzic, 70, the former president of the breakaway Bosnian Serb Republic, was found guilty on 10 out of 11 charges brought by war crimes prosecutors at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague. He would appeal the decision, his legal adviser said.
"The accused was the sole person within Republika Srpska (the Bosnian Serb Republic) with the power to prevent the killing of the Bosnian Muslim males," said presiding judge O-Gon Kwok, in a reference to the 8,000 killed at Srebrenica.
"Far from preventing it, he ordered they be transferred elsewhere to be killed," the judge said.
Karadzic was acquitted of one count of genocide in various towns across Bosnia during the war of the 1990s.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-warcrimes-bosnia-karadzic-idUSKCN0WP2ZW
