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    The Hague finds Radovan Karadzik Guilty of Genocide

    Karadzic jailed for genocide in Bosnia...

    Radovan Karadzic jailed for Bosnia war Srebrenica genocide
    Thu, 24 Mar 2016 - 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.
    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.



    Radovan Karadzic jailed for Bosnia war genocide


    The current president of the Bosnian Serb Republic, Milorad Dodik, condemned the verdict. "The West has apportioned blame to the Serbian people and that guilty cliche was imposed on all the decision-makers, including in this case today... Karadzic," he said at a ceremony to commemorate the anniversary of the start of Nato air strikes against Yugoslavia in 1999. "It really hurts that somebody has decided to deliver this verdict in The Hague exactly today, on the day when Nato decided to bomb Serbia... to cause so much catastrophic damage and so many casualties," Mr Dodik added.


    At the scene: Paul Adams, BBC News, The Hague


    Radovan Karadzic had said no reasonable court would convict him. But listening to Judge Kwon, it was hard to see how any reasonable court could not convict him. Mr Karadzic listened intently, the corners of his mouth pulled down in a look of permanent disgust and, just perhaps, disbelief. By the end of an hour and 40 minutes, it was obvious what was coming. There's a strong sense of satisfaction here that one of the chief architects of Bosnia's bloody dismemberment has finally been found guilty. The court's work is almost done. But all eyes now will be on the fate of Karadzic's main general, Ratko Mladic. His name came up a great deal during Judge Kwon's summation, particularly in regard to the massacre of Srebrenica.


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    The Latest: Serbian nationalists rally supporting Karadzic
    March 24,`16 — The Latest on the verdict in the case of Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic (all times local):
    7:30 p.m.

    Several thousand Serbian ultranationalists have protested the 40-year prison sentence handed to the wartime Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic by a U.N. war crimes court. Carrying posters of Karadzic and other accused Serbian war criminals, far-right supporters in the Serbian capital of Belgrade said Thursday that Karadzic was convicted only because he was a Serb. Nationalist leader Vojislav Seselj, who himself is awaiting a war crimes verdict next week, says Karadzic “was convicted innocent, without guilt.” He adds “the verdict against Karadzic is a verdict against the entire Serb people, the entire Serbian nation.” The court in The Hague, Netherlands, has tried Seselj for recruiting paramilitary units that committed atrocities during the 1991-95 wars in Croatia and Bosnia.



    Bosnian Serb people watch the TV broadcast of the sentencing Radovan Karadzic at the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague, in western Bosnian town of Banja Luka, Bosnia, on Thursday, March, 24,2016. Karadzic was convicted of genocide and nine other charges Thursday at a U.N. court, and sentenced to 40 years in prison.

    5:45 p.m.

    Serbia’s president is pledging support to the Serb mini-state in Bosnia, warning that its future may be brought into question after wartime leader Radovan Karadzic was convicted of genocide by a U.N. court and sentenced to 40 years in prison. Tomislav Nikolic said Thursday that “this verdict cannot and must not affect the fate of Republika Srpska” — the Serb entity in Bosnia. He adds that Serbia will “use its right ... to support Republika Srpska and help it survive.” Serbia backed the Bosnian Serbs during the war. Then-Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic was one of the signatories of the 1995 peace agreement that ended the carnage.

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    A Serbian human rights expert says the genocide verdict against former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic is a landmark because it will no longer allow for new interpretations of wartime events during the worst carnage in Europe since World War II. Natasa Kandic said Thursday “this ruling is an obstacle for revisions of history, for what has really happened” in Bosnia during the war. She says: “This is the most important verdict. He was the supreme commander. He was convicted for acts he knew about. It is justice for both the victims and Karadzic himself.” Kandic says that instead of the 40-year prison sentence, “it would have been more logical that he received the life sentence, but this one is more or less the same.”

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    Jail amenities not to Karadzic's likings...

    Karadzic protests '19th century' jail conditions, demands release
    6 Apr 2016 - Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, sentenced last month to 40 years in jail for war crimes including the genocide of more than 8,000 Muslims, asked on Wednesday to be released pending his appeal, saying detention was ruining his health.
    The head of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia turned down his request but ordered that health conditions at the U.N. detention unit in the Dutch seaside resort of Scheveningen be looked at. Karadzic, 70, who had requested the tribunal hearing because he said the health and detention issues were pressing, focussed in a 10-minute address on his conviction which he said was unjust and had been refuted in court. Pressed by tribunal head Theodor Meron to address his health concerns directly, Karadzic said his health had declined during the eight years he had spent in custody, something he blamed on a "malignancy" in the detention unit which he said had already claimed the lives of other detainees.

    Conditions there were "19th century, like some Communist or Turkish prison," he said. "It did not occur to anyone to investigate the high instance of malignancy," said Karadzic, a psychiatrist who was living in disguise working as a spiritual healer in Belgrade when he was caught in 2008. Meron declined his appeal to be freed, but said Karadzic's complaints about health conditions in the unit would be investigated. Karadzic led the Bosnian Serbs during the 1992-95 conflict in which rival Serb, Croat and Bosniac forces fought to carve multi-ethnic Bosnia into ethnically pure statelets, a war that cost 100,000 lives.

    He was sentenced in March to 40 years in prison for war crimes including the massacre of Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica in 1995. Karadzic on Wednesday also asked for a more modern laptop on which to prepare his appeal, saying the old IBM computer he was using was slow, prone to frequent crashing and had no internet access. "In some prisons in Europe people have access to the internet, controlled of course. They are able to keep up with scientific developments," he said.

    The detention unit at Scheveningen is run by Dutch authorities on behalf of the ICTY and the International Criminal Court, also in The Hague. With gyms, tennis courts, libraries and kitchens in which detainees can cook home food, it is regarded as one of the world's most comfortable prisons.

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    Thumbs down on Mladic...

    UN prosecutors demand life sentence for Gen. Ratko Mladic
    Dec 7,`16 -- United Nations prosecutors on Wednesday demanded a life sentence for Gen. Ratko Mladic, telling judges that they should convict and imprison the former Bosnian Serb military chief for orchestrating atrocities throughout Bosnia's 1992-95 war.
    Prosecutor Alan Tieger told judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia that it would be "an insult to the victims, living and dead, and an affront to justice to impose any sentence other than the most severe available under law: A life sentence." Tieger was speaking at the end of prosecutors' closing statements at the conclusion of Mladic's trial on charges including genocide, murder and terror. Mladic's defense attorneys will deliver their closing statements before the three-judge panel retires to consider verdicts, which are expected late next year.

    Mladic faces 11 counts of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide linked to his command of troops accused of atrocities including indiscriminately shelling and sniping in the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo, and murdering thousands of Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica in July 1995, Europe's worst massacre since World War II. The 74-year-old Mladic insists he is innocent and often appeared unmoved by the prosecution's final statement. He spent part of the morning in court Wednesday leafing through two newspapers, sometimes looking up at a computer screen when prosecutors displayed images of Bosnian Serb army orders. As Tieger delivered his sentence demand, Mladic stared at him across the courtroom.

    On the final day of prosecutors' closing statement, lawyer Adam Weber told judges that Mladic played a key role in the deadly siege of Sarajevo during the war, saying it was the general's "personal approval that was necessary" for Serb forces to shell the city using specially modified munitions. Another prosecutor, Peter McCloskey, went on to outline Mladic's role in the Srebrenica slayings, saying that "we see Mladic commanding his forces in an organized and systematic capture, detention, transportation, execution and burial of over 7,000 able-bodied men and boys of Srebrenica." Mladic's trial, which started more than four years ago, is the last case still underway at the tribunal, which convicted and sentenced 83 suspects. Among them was Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb leader who was sentenced to 40 years in March for genocide and other crimes.

    Tieger reminded judges that four of Mladic's subordinate officers have been convicted by the tribunal and sentenced to life for their role in the Srebrenica genocide. Mladic insists he did nothing wrong during the war that left 100,000 dead, claiming that his military campaigns were intended to protect the Serb people as Bosnia disintegrated following the breakup of Yugoslavia and that he did not have a hand in some of the worst atrocities. But in an emotional finale to his closing statement, Tieger said there was no doubt Mladic was guilty and focused in on the victims. "No-one can fathom the extent of the individual tragedies of the victims in this case," he said, referring to slain children, beaten prisoners and women who were raped. "The litany of tragedies goes on and on," Tieger said. "No-one can fathom the extent of the suffering for which Ratko Mladic is responsible."

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    Decision on Mladic about to come down...


    UN Tribunal to Decide Fate of 'Butcher of Bosnia' Mladic
    November 22, 2017 - United Nations judges in The Hague are set to deliver a verdict Wednesday in the trial of former Bosnian Serb army leader Ratko Mladic, who is accused of war crimes stemming from the conflict in the former Yugoslavia during the 1990s.
    Mladic, known as the "Butcher of Bosnia," is the last former military leader to face war crimes charges in the court, which was set up to deal with the aftermath of the Bosnian war that raged from 1992 through 1995. Mladic, who has been on trial since 2012, has been charged with 11 counts of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity for his alleged role in leading sniper campaigns in Sarajevo and the 1995 killings of more than 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica — the worst massacre in Europe since World War II.



    А Dec. 5, 2016, photo taken from video shows former Bosnian Serb military commander Gen. Ratko Mladic as he looks across the courtroom at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands.



    Prosecutors have asked the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia to sentence Mladic to life in prison. Last year, attorney Alan Tieger said anything less than a life sentence would be “an insult to the victims, living and dead, and an affront to justice.” Mladic’s defense lawyer, Dragan Ivetic, has accused prosecutors of seeking to make the former general a “symbolic sacrificial lamb for the perceived guilt” of all Serbs during the war. He called for Mladic, 75, to be acquitted on all charges.



    A Bosnian Muslim woman protects herself from the sun during a funeral ceremony for dozens of newly identified victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, at the Srebrenica memorial center of Potocari, 150 km northeast of Sarajevo, Bosnia


    At the end of the war in 1995, Mladic went into hiding and lived in obscurity in Serbia, protected by family and elements of the security forces. Mladic was indicted for genocide and crimes against humanity but evaded justice for 16 years. He was eventually tracked down and arrested at a cousin's house in rural northern Serbia in 2011. The Bosnian Serbs' political leader, Radovan Karadzic, was found guilty of war crimes in March 2016 and sentenced to 40 years in prison. The U.N. tribunal is scheduled to initiate proceedings to deliver the verdict Wednesday.


    https://www.voanews.com/a/un-tribuna...t/4128882.html

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    Bosnia’s ‘eternal refugees’ await ruling on Mladic
    Wed, Nov 22, 2017 - In 1994, she was assigned to barrack No. 21 at the Jezevac camp for displaced people, where she awaited the end of Bosnia’s war. Nearly a quarter of century later, Suhra Mustafic still lives there.
    Having fled at the beginning of the 1992-1995 war, she and her four children never returned to Skelani, their village on the Drina River, a natural border between Bosnia and Serbia. Her husband was killed a few months later in the eastern town of Srebrenica fighting forces of Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic, who is to hear his verdict from a UN war crimes court today. Now aged 54, very ill and almost blind, Mustafic is one of about 400 people who settled in the “temporary” camp between a pine forest and a coal mine waste dump. The Jezevac camp has become a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of the northeastern Bosnian town of Tuzla. The majority of its occupants come from the area around Srebrenica, where in July 1995, Mladic’s forces executed about 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys. The atrocity was the worst in Europe since World War II and deemed genocide by international courts.


    Mustafic’s family living quarters, covering 35m2, were not designed to last. Her head covered with a blue veil, she lifted the carpet to show the rotten floor. A few pieces of old furniture are also falling apart. However, Mustafic never wanted to return to her Skelani, about 140km to the southeast. “Never! Even if I were offered a five-story house in my village, or five houses, I would not return there,” she said. “There is no one with whom I could share my daily life. My family, and those of my neighbors, were destroyed.” After the war, which claimed 100,000 lives, a peace deal split Bosnia along ethnic lines into two semi-independent entities. Skelani is now in the Serb-run entity, Republika Srpska, while the camp is on the other side of the demarcation line, in the federation dominated by Bosnian Muslims and Croatians.



    A Bosnian Muslim woman walks in the Jezevac camp for displaced people near Tuzla, northeastern Bosnia


    Branka Antic Stauber, from the local Women’s Strength non-governmental organization assisting the refugees, said these often-widowed women in camps like Jezevac do not want to leave. They have become “prisoners of their trauma, because they never managed to break the impasse in which they found themselves,” she said. “Idleness is the silent killer of these people and the fact that we got them used to being dependent, by giving them what they needed for years, has only plunged them into inactivity. It extinguished their need to work and their ambitions,” she said. Hadzira Ibrahimovic, 38, has been living in the Jezevac camp since she was 13 years old and started a family there.


    Her three children — aged 18, 11 and five — have been “refugees since birth,” the woman from the Srebrenica region said. “We pick up coal on the dump and we sell it,” Ibrahimovic said. “We cannot return. The house has been razed, there is no one left in the village, no school.” The widowed refugees receive a monthly pension of 360 convertible marks (US$217), which also supports their relatives. “The third generation of children are starting to be born in these collective centers. We are seeing a transmission of the trauma to children and grandchildren,” Antic Stauber said. Nearly 9,000 Bosnian citizens still live in 156 such camps across the nation. Bosnian Minister for Refugees Issues Semiha Borovac announced the goal of closing them by 2020.


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    The 1990s Balkan Wars in Key Dates
    November 22, 2017 — Ahead of the judgement Wednesday of Bosnian Serb army chief Ratko Mladic, here is a timeline of the 1990s Balkans conflicts that tore apart the former Yugoslavia.
    - Bickering after Tito dies -


    Communist Yugoslavia, which emerged shortly after the end of World War II, was made up of six republics: Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia, Monte$#@! and Macedonia. Following the death of its autocratic leader Josip Broz Tito in 1980, the Yugoslav federation found itself in crisis, with bickering between ethnic groups and surging nationalist sentiments. By the time the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, inter-ethnic relations in Yugoslavia were at breaking point. The first multiparty elections in the republics in 1990 were won mostly by nationalists. The most prosperous republics, Slovenia and Croatia, started advocating a greater decentralization of Yugoslavia's government. But the largest republic, Serbia, led by Slobodan Milosevic, rallied fellow Serbs throughout Yugoslavia in a push for centralized control.


    - Slovenia and Croatia declare independence -


    On June 25, 1991, the parliaments of Slovenia and Croatia declared independence, which led to the deployment of the Belgrade-controlled Yugoslav army (JNA) towards affected borders and airports. After a 10-day conflict, the JNA withdrew from ethnically homogeneous Slovenia. But in Croatia, Serbian troops sided with ethnic Serb rebels who opposed independence, launching what would become a four-year war. The eastern town of Vukovar was razed to the ground during a siege by Yugoslav forces in autumn 1991, while the medieval Adriatic town of Dubrovnik was severely damaged.



    A Bosnian woman cries at a coffin of her relative, one of 173 coffins of newly identified victims from the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, in the Potocari Memorial Center, near Srebrenica



    - Bosnian referendum -


    In Bosnia, the most ethnically and religiously diverse republic and home to four million people, Muslims and Croats organized an independence referendum. The move was fiercely opposed by Belgrade-backed Bosnian Serbs, who made up more than 30 percent of the population. While Serbs boycotted the vote, 60 percent of Bosnia's citizens voted for independence.


    - Bosnian war -


    In April 1992 war broke out between Bosnia's Muslims and Croats, who were on one side, and Bosnian Serbs. Bosnia won international recognition a day later. Led by Radovan Karadzic and armed by the JNA, the Serbs declared that territories under their control belonged to an entity called Republika Srpska. Soon after, Bosnian Croats turned against the republic's Muslims.


    - Siege of Sarajevo -
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    Mladic was given a life sentence after being found guilty...

    Ratko Mladic, Known As The "Butcher Of Bosnia," Has Been Found Guilty Of Genocide By A UN Court
    November 22, 2017 - Mladic was given a life sentence after being found guilty of 10 of 11 counts against him, including genocide in Srebrenica in 1995.
    The former Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic has been found guilty of genocide and sentenced to life imprisonment by a United Nations court. Mladic was convicted on 10 of the 11 counts against him, including genocide in Srebrenica in 1995, crimes against humanity and persecution across the country, his brutalization of Sarajevo, and taking UN peacekeepers hostage. However, presiding judge Alphons Orie found the 74-year-old not guilty of one count of genocide in 1992, during the siege of Sarajevo.

    Following the conclusion of the trial, the Associated Press reported that Mladic's defense lawyer said he would be appealing the convictions. Mladic's son, Darko, also said his father would appeal the life sentence. Mladic, known as the "butcher of Bosnia", was a notorious Bosnian Serb commander during the 1992–95 conflict. The war is estimated to have killed 100,000 people, displaced more than 2 million, and resulted in the rape of an estimated 12,000 to 20,000 Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) women. During interviews before his capture in 2011, he remained defiant about the men under his command and their actions.

    At the court hearing, Mladic requested a toilet break and when he returned 30 minutes later, he shouted at the presiding judge. He was subsequently thrown out of the chamber for the remainder of the sentencing proceedings. Fikret Grabovica, of the Association of Parents Whose Children were Killed in Wartime, said outside the Hague that Mladic's behavior in court showed "what a coward he is". Survivors watched from outside the court, with reports that when his sentence was announced many burst into spontaneous applause, while others wept.

    Some survivors expressed frustration that more hasn't been done to prosecute the many other perpetrators who remain free. "Mladic is only one man. He will be sentenced to life in prison, for sure. But there are thousands of 'Mladics' walking free. They are walking around, they are laughing in my face. They are spitting in my face," survivor Mevludin Oric told journalist Karmelina Husejnovic. The Mothers of Srebrenica, a Netherlands-based activist group that campaigns for the 6,000 survivors of the siege, welcomed the verdict and sentence. Spokesperson Hajra Catic told BIRN (Balkan Investigative Reporting Network) it was "partial justice", and that it was "good that it is life in prison. This is of symbolic importance".

    Srebrenica, a designated a "safe zone" by UN peacekeeping forces, was besieged by Bosnian Serbs in 1995. In exchange for 14 Dutch peacekeepers held captive by the attacking force, the UN withdrew protection for thousands of Bosniaks who had sought shelter from forces under the command of Mladic. In the following days an estimated 7,000 men would be killed by such soldiers around Srebrenica. After being indicted for war crimes, Mladic went into hiding – protected by friends and former associates – for 16 years, and was only captured in 2011. Mladic has been on trial at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) since 2012, and his case is the last heard by the court.

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    His grandkids gonna be sad come Christmas time...

    Bosnian Croat general dies after drinking poison in courtroom
    November 29, 2017 - The wartime commander of Bosnian Croat forces, Slobodan Praljak, died after he drank poison seconds after United Nations judges turned down his appeal against a 20-year sentence for war crimes against Bosnian Muslims, Croatian state television reported.
    The broadcaster quoted sources close to Praljak as saying he had died in a hospital in The Hague on Wednesday.

    Appeals judges at the U.N.’s Yugoslav war crimes tribunal upheld the convictions of six Bosnian Croats found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity during the 1990s, in the court’s last verdict before it closes next month. After the judge confirmed his sentence, Praljak, 72, took a swing from a glass and said: “I just drank poison.” He also said: “I am not a war criminal. I oppose this conviction.”

    The presiding judge suspended the hearing and called for a doctor. An ambulance was at the building and paramedics went to the courtroom. “Former head of the chief headquarters of the Croatian Defence Council, General Slobodan Praljak, died in a hospital in The Hague after he drank poison in a courtroom after the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia confirmed his 20-year sentence for war crimes,” Croatian TV said.

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