Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic was responsible for Srebrenica genocid

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Karadzic found criminally responsible for the siege of Sarajevo and was sentenced to 40 years in prison.

Radovan Karadzic was found guilty on Thursday of orchestrating ethnic cleansing during the war in Bosnia in Europe's worst single act of slaughter since the Second World War and sentenced to 40 years in prison.

The 70-year-old Bosnian Serb leader appeared in court in The Hague to hear judgements on 11 war crimes charges, including two counts of genocide.

• Serbian war criminals: Radovan Karadzic profile - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/serbia/8538359/Serbian-war-criminals-Radovan-Karadzic-profile.html

The verdicts against Karadzic make him the most senior of all the alleged Balkans war criminals to have been convicted.

Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic, who was accused of stirring the Balkans conflict as Yugoslavia crumbled in the 1990s, died in his cell while on remand in The Hague in 2006.

As commander in chief of Serb forces in Bosnia, Karadzic was accused of overseeing some of the worst atrocities of the war, which ran from 1992-95 and cost an estimated 100,000 lives.

It included the 44-month siege and bombardment of Sarajevo, and the 1995 massacre of some 8,000 Bosnian men and boys in the Srebrenica enclave.

Two other key Serb suspects remain on trial, including Karadzic's military chief General Ratko Mladic, who was caught in 2011, and Serb ultranationalist Vojislav Seselj.

The trial is being closely watched in Bosnia, and the conviction is likely to lead to large scale celebrations among the Muslim communities Karadzic's forces terrorised. A number of survivors of the Bosnian war were in court to watch the verdict.

January 1993: Radovan Karadzic and General Ratko Mladic during a meeting with the United Nations in the Serbian Parliament in Pale, Bosnia  Photo: Rex Features

Karadzic has been in the court's custody since 2008, having spent 12 years on the run in the Balkans after vanishing from the public eye in 1996.

During that time, investigators froze bank accounts of close relatives suspected of helping him hide, yet he remained at large, even publishing a book of poetry in Serbia.

It was long rumoured that he had benefited from the protection of the Serb intelligence agents - and possibly also the Serb Orthodox Church.

But on July 21, 2008, he was unexpectedly arrested on a Belgrade bus while posing as a New Age healer under the name of Dr Dragan Dabic, complete with long beard and ponytailed hair.

His New Age alter ego quickly deserted him by the time he appeared in the dock in The Hague ten days later. Clean shaven and wearing a suit, he refused to enter pleas to the court, and has refused to recognise its authority ever since.

To this day, he protests his innocence, saying his wartime actions were intended to protect Serbs and stop the bloodshed getting any worse. In an interview by email earlier this week to news portal Balkan Insight, he said he was confident that the court would clear him.

"My permanent fight to preserve the peace, prevent the war and decrease the sufferings of everyone regardless of religion were an exemplary effort deserving respect rather than persecution," he wrote.

A key part of the trial has involved the question of just how much Karadzic knew about the activities of the forces under his control. In 2014, Karadzic tried to get his fellow defendant Ratko Mladic to put him in the clear over Srebrenica, where Bosnian Serb forces under Mladic's command massacred some 7,000 Muslim men and boys.

Karadzic subpoenaed Mladic in the hope that he would confirm he had knowledge of the planning or carrying out of the Srebrenica operation, only for Mladic to evoke his right to silence. The scene of the two ageing defendants arguing it out in court had a blackly comic element to it, after Mladic complained that he could not speak properly as his false teeth had not been brought up from the cells.

Karadzic's trial is one of the final acts at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal. The court, set up in 1993, indicted 161 suspects. Of them, 80 were convicted and sentenced, 18 acquitted, 13 sent back to local courts and 36 had the indictments withdrawn or died.

Karadzic defended himself through his 497-day trial and called 248 witnesses, poring over many of the millions of pages of evidence with the help of a court-appointed legal adviser.

Munira Subasic, whose son was among the victims of Srebrenica, said the verdict was "very important to show new generations, especially those in Serbia who have been poisoned with hatred already, what really happened in Bosnia."

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic pictured in 2008, with glasses, long white hair and a beard  Photo: AP

The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia was set up in 1991 at the outset of federal Yugoslavia's violent break-up. It was meant to deter future war crimes and promote reconciliation, but its judgments remain divisive.

Many Serbs, both in Bosnia and Serbia, regard the court as a pro-Western instrument.

Their belief is strengthened by the fact that the sentencing coincides with the anniversary of the 1999 NATO bombing of Serbia that led to independence for the ethnic Albania-dominated province of Kosovo.

More than 20 years after the guns fell silent in Bosnia, Karadzic is still considered a hero in Serb-controlled parts of the divided country.

Last weekend, Milorad Dodik, the current Bosnian Serb leader, opened a student dormitory named after Karadzic and had Karadzic's daughter and wife unveil the plaque.

Speaking at the opening, Mr Dodik called the trial "humiliating" and said those who fail to understand why Karadzic was still feted in some quarters as "shallow-minded." His words were followed by resounding applause.

Serge Brammertz, prosecutor at the tribunal, worries that its work, which is winding down, has done little to heal the war's deep wounds.

"I'm not convinced everyone has really understood the wrongdoings from the past," he said. "Many people in all the former Yugoslavia are still using a rhetoric that is still closer to what we heard in court than we should expect.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/serbia/12203038/Bosnian-Serb-leader-Radovan-Karadzic-due-in-court-for-war-crimes-verdict.html

 

Finally some justice in this world

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Many Bosnian Serbs however defend Karadzic and believe that Serbs have been unjustly targeted by The Hague tribunal.

"The 40-year imprisonment is unfair and will contribute neither to truth nor to trust in our region," said Mladen Bosic, the head of the Serb Democratic Party (SDS) that Karadzic founded in 1990.

"The Hague tribunal has once again shown that it is a political court, the politically-based verdicts were handed down to all Serb leaders from Serbia, Republika Srpska and Croatia," he said.

"It hurts that this day is chosen to pronounce the verdict in the Hague," Bosnian Serb president Milorad Dodik told reporters shortly before the verdict. He was speaking at a ceremony in Serbia to commemorate the anniversary of the start of NATO air strikes against Yugoslavia in 1999.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-3508125/Srebrenica-survivors-disappointed-say-Karadzics-verdict-came-late.html

 

 

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Good. He's a vile beast. 

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Should have been more

[Phoenix 17,395]

yeah let's look at just that side of the story 

 

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13 minutes ago, Goosey said:

Many Bosnian Serbs however defend Karadzic and believe that Serbs have been unjustly targeted by The Hague tribunal.

"The 40-year imprisonment is unfair and will contribute neither to truth nor to trust in our region," said Mladen Bosic, the head of the Serb Democratic Party (SDS) that Karadzic founded in 1990.

"The Hague tribunal has once again shown that it is a political court, the politically-based verdicts were handed down to all Serb leaders from Serbia, Republika Srpska and Croatia," he said.

"It hurts that this day is chosen to pronounce the verdict in the Hague," Bosnian Serb president Milorad Dodik told reporters shortly before the verdict. He was speaking at a ceremony in Serbia to commemorate the anniversary of the start of NATO air strikes against Yugoslavia in 1999.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-3508125/Srebrenica-survivors-disappointed-say-Karadzics-verdict-came-late.html

 

 

let me guess, u support trump too right?

regarding the topic -- > finally justice is served, worse than ISIS this man is, and his supporters

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10 minutes ago, Phoenix said:

yeah let's look at just that side of the story 

 

what is the other side? explain with facts if u can

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Just now, gagaboy94 said:

let me guess, u support trump too right?

regarding the topic -- > finally justice is served, worse than ISIS this man is, and his supporters

Huh? It's an article from the Daily Mail, I'm not Mladen Bosic.

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Just now, Goosey said:

Huh? It's an article from the Daily Mail, I'm not Mladen Bosic.

daily mail is not a news source to rely upon

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Just now, gagaboy94 said:

what is the other side? explain with facts if u can

what he did was awfull, that's no doubt

but we can only pretend that serbs were the only ones doing bad stuff in that whole exyu situation

that's all

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hopefully, one day Balkan people will realize there's only four authentic nations on the peninsula and the Bosnia, Kosovo and Macedonia conflicts were born out of denial of their own post-Ottoman propaganda.

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42 minutes ago, gagaboy94 said:

daily mail is not a news source to rely upon

There's nothing false in the article, it's all real quotes.

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Good. Rot in there.

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I could have seen him 

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1 hour ago, gagaboy94 said:

let me guess, u support trump too right?

regarding the topic -- > finally justice is served, worse than ISIS this man is, and his supporters

My family being Serbian, and hearing my great grandmother speak of how the Bosnian Militants raped and slaughtered all the women and children in the villages, I don't believe you all know the entire story as I do not either. So before you all through out names and terms about the Serbs, remember you don't know everything.

 

also, why would you relate this to supporting Trump? That literally makes no sense.