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Eugene

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Tue Mar 22, 2016, 05:45 AM Mar 2016

From poetry-lover to genocide suspect, Karadzic faces verdict

Source: Reuters

World | Tue Mar 22, 2016 3:05am EDT

From poetry-lover to genocide suspect, Karadzic faces verdict

SARAJEVO | BY DARIA SITO-SUCIC

Radovan Karadzic saw himself as locked in a David and Goliath struggle to save the Serbs even as their forces were reducing the besieged city of Sarajevo to rubble.

On Thursday, 21 years after he was first indicted, the United Nations war crimes tribunal delivers its verdict on the man many Bosnians feared as the "master of life and death" during the war of 1992-95.

The former Bosnian Serb leader has been on trial in The Hague since 2009, charged with war crimes and genocide against Bosnian Muslims and Croats. He could be jailed for life.

A man who liked to recite his own poetry and hold court in a ski resort near Sarajevo, Karadzic was president of the self- styled Bosnian Serb Republic and supreme commander of its armed forces until he lost power in 1996.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-warcrimes-karadzic-life-idUSKCN0WO0J0
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