Today, one of the men responsible for the biggest massacre on Europe’s soil since WW2 was found guilty of 10 of 11 charges, including genocide over the 1995 Srebrenica massacre. He was also found guilty of orchestrating a campaign known as “ethnic cleansing” of non-Serbs from the territory of the breakaway Bosnian Serb republic, in which hundreds and thousands were driven from their homes (including me).
Guess how many years behind bars he got. 40. That’s it. Forty years…
He is only expected to serve two-thirds of his sentence. His time spent in detention – slightly more than seven years – will count towards the total.
There is NO justice in this world!!!
Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has been convicted of genocide and war crimes during the 1992-95 war, and sentenced to 40 years in jail. According to BBC News
Radovan Karadzic verdictFormer Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic found guilty of genocide and war crimes charges and sentenced to 40 years in jail bbc.in/1RnOlWc
Posted by BBC News on Thursday, March 24, 2016
UN judges in The Hague found him guilty of 10 of 11 charges, including genocide over the 1995 Srebrenica massacre.
Karadzic, 70, is the most senior political figure to face judgement over the violent collapse of Yugoslavia.
His case is being seen as one of the most important war crimes trials since World War Two.
He had denied the charges, saying that any atrocities committed were the actions of rogue individuals, not the forces under his command.
The trial, in which he represented himself, lasted eight years.
He was found guilty of the second count relating to Srebrenica, where Bosnian Serb forces massacred more than 7,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys.
“Karadzic was in agreement with the plan of the killings,” Judge O-Gon Kwon said.
The massacre happened in July 1995 when Srebrenica, an enclave besieged by Bosnian Serb forces for three years, was overrun. The bodies of the victims were dumped in mass graves.
Karadzic was also found guilty of crimes against humanity relating to the siege and shelling of the city of Sarajevo over several years which left nearly 12,000 people dead.
The judge said he had significantly contributed to a plan which emanated from the leadership and whose primary purpose was to spread terror in the city.
Charges
Genocide
- Count 1 – genocide (in municipalities of Bratunac, Foca, Klyuc, Prijedor, Sanski Most, Vlasenica and Zvornik) – not guilty
- Count 2 – genocide (in Srebrenica) – guilty
Crimes against humanity
- Count 3 – persecutions – guilty
- Count 4 – extermination – guilty
- Count 5 – murder – guilty
- Count 7 – deportation – guilty
- Count 8 – inhumane acts (forcible transfer) – guilty
Violations of the laws or customs of war
- Count 6 – murder – guilty
- Count 9 – terror (in Sarajevo) – guilty
- Count 10 – unlawful attacks on civilians (in Sarajevo) – guilty
- Count 11 – taking hostage of UN observers and peacekeepers – guilty
Mr Karadzic was also found guilty of orchestrating a campaign known as “ethnic cleansing” of non-Serbs from the territory of the breakaway Bosnian Serb republic, in which hundreds and thousands were driven from their homes.
He would only be expected to serve two-thirds of his sentence. His time spent in detention – slightly more than seven years – will count towards the total.
At least 100,000 people in total died during fighting in the the Bosnian war. The conflict lasted nearly four years before a US-brokered peace deal brought it to an end in 1995.
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