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March 25, 2016
The Guardian - Karadizc sentenced 40 years for genocide
Seventy year old former Bosnia Serbian Leader Radovan Karadizc was sentenced to a 40 year jail term after being found guilty of 10 of 11 charges filed against him The sentence came out 18 months after a 5 year trial. He claimed that his actions were aimed at protecting the Serbs. One of the noted events in his regime as the commander in chief of Serbia was the 1995 massacre of 8,000 Bosnians.men and boys in the Srebrenica enclave
The former Serbian President Ivan Milosevic died in 2006 in Hague before the ICTY could render sentence unto the former leader. Karadicz, and 3 others are undergoing trial: his military chief Ratko Mladic and ultranationalist leader Vojislav Seselj.
Kardadicz escaped arrest by disguising himself as new age healer Dr. Dragan Drabic wearing shaggy hair and thick beaard.
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On Srebrenica, Kwon said: “On the basis of the totality of the evidence, the [ICTY] finds that the accused shared the expanded common purpose of killing the Bosnian Muslim males of Srebrenica and that he significantly contributed to it.”
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More than 20 years after the guns fell silent in Bosnia, Karadžić is still considered a hero in Serb-controlled parts of the country, and the verdict is unlikely to help reconcile the enduring deep divisions in Bosnia and the region.
