UN tribunal extends Radovan Karadžić’s sentence for war crimes and genocide
Radovan Karadžić had been given a sentence of 40 years, but this has been determined to ‘inadequately reflect' the extent of his war crimes
Belgrade/The Hague — The UN tribunal for atrocities committed during the bloody breakup of Yugoslavia has confirmed convictions of genocide and war crimes against Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadžić and has extended his initial sentence to life in prison. Vagn Joensen, the presiding judge of the Appeals Chamber in the Hague, the Netherlands, said an earlier prison term of 40 years handed down in 2016 “inadequately reflected” the gravity of the crimes. In that trial, Karadžić was found guilty of genocide and nine other counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity for his actions in the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The court upheld convictions that included his role in the death of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the town of Srebrenica, Europe’s worst mass murder since the Holocaust. He was also convicted for the forced deportation of people, taking hostages and for staging the 44-month siege of the Bosnian capital Sarajevo. Karadžić, one of the tribunal’s most high-profile target...
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